We all know it’s not the saying but the doing that is the difficult part. With the pace and complexity of business today, it can be a significant challenge to align all parties involved and turn goals into results. Always keep the following 5 rules in mind when aligning your team toward clear goals.
How do you turn your meeting minutes and business plans into action? How do you make sure that actions are being executed without spending too much time on follow-up? How do you monitor progress towards goal fulfillment?
We all know it’s not the saying but the doing that is the difficult part. With the pace and complexity of business today, it can be a significant challenge to align all parties involved and turn goals into results.
A challenge faced by many organizations, is related to audits and how to implement a decent risk mitigation plan and embed controls in day-to-day operations. As typically a lot of different stakeholders are involved, it can become a nightmare to keep all information, decisions and actions aligned.
When performing user acceptance testing, there are typically a lot of different persons from different departments involved. Organizing work and keeping track of progress, events and issues using a spreadsheet is really a nightmare!
Every business organization runs several recurring processes. Think about onboarding new customers, creating new materials, setting up new plants, hiring an employee, … and many more. When the process involves multiple stakeholders or it requires high standards in regards to documentation and compliance, it can be a nightmare to get everybody on the same page, …
Best-in-class business project managers continuously seek opportunities to deliver better projects: quicker, leaner and with less risk. Many of them experiment with online project, collaboration and task management tools, as an alternative to traditional collaboration with e-mail and excel. However, new challenges arise when using those tools in a business context, with many different stakeholders …
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In this post, we highlight a couple of key problems that typically arise at the moment of going live with SAP or any other ERP system. Some are easy to resolve, others will require the right level of upfront effort and attention. When the organization is well prepared, it is our experience that headaches are …
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When is your organization ready for an SAP implementation or project? Will the organization ever be ready? SAP projects are business transformation initiatives. Hence, checking organizational readiness is key. If not done properly, the project, and even your business, can seriously be jeopardized. One thing you definitely should not do when evaluating organizational readiness is rely …
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PLAN (before) Do we really need to have a meeting? Are there any alternatives? Plan your meetings early in the week and the morning (Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday – don’t plan meetings on a Friday). Prepare your meeting: having an agenda is just not enough; distribute meeting relevant information 3 days ahead. Reduce the number …
