How to Optimize Your Workflow and Make it Stick
The word “workflow” is ubiquitous in the business world. We’re always talking about how to optimize it, but what does that actually mean? Workflow optimization can be defined as [...]
Defining Company Roles: How Middle Managers Keep The Foundation Strong
In the first two parts of our blog series about company roles, we discussed the role of the C-Suite and Senior Management, focusing on how they can use their [...]
Defining Work Roles: How to Keep Your Enterprise Healthy as a Senior Manager
In part one of our series on defining company roles, we talked about how the C-suite can build a more resilient company and keep their employees happy. In part [...]
Policy and Performance: How to Improve Your Organizational Structure
Whether we know it or not, every business has an organizational structure. Some form organically over time, and some are intentionally created. No matter which it is, a [...]
How a Diverse Supply Chain Gives You a Competitive Edge
Disruptions in global logistics can have dire consequences. Factors like extreme weather events, geopolitical conflicts, and cyberattacks can negatively affect the supply chain in different ways, and businesses have [...]
Defining Work Roles: How the C-suite Can Build a Happier and More Resilient Company
No business would run without the human systems behind it. Companies need talented, competent people to survive. To run well and thrive, the company culture must embrace its people [...]
Helping Employees Embrace Organizational Change | 5 Techniques for Managers
Most people aren’t fans of change. They get comfortable with the familiar and develop routines around repeated tasks. As humans, we sometimes resist change to a fault, sticking with [...]
What Does it Mean to Effectively Manage Your Supply Chain?
The supply chain is the lifeline of any business or organization. Cut it off, and supplies go unreplenished. Projects go unfinished. In extreme cases, a supply chain breakdown [...]
The Strength of a Diverse Supply Chain
The benefits of a diverse workforce extend far beyond enhancing a company’s public image. Diversity, particularly in the supply chain, makes businesses stronger, more competitive, and better able to [...]
Why You Need A Process for Organizational Change Management
Change is necessary. According to The Chief Reinvention Specialist, a blog run by business specialist Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva, 33.6% of businesses surveyed said they need to reinvent themselves every [...]
The Benefits of Hiring An Outside Perspective
The idea of hiring a consultant might seem odd to some. Why go to the trouble of hiring someone for a one-off or long-term project when you could [...]
Micro Learning: What It Is and How It Can Help Your Business
As work becomes more digitized, people have come to expect a certain level of freedom from their jobs. As more businesses move online and more people work from [...]