The Streamlined Business Blog is all about getting—and keeping—Operations Under Control by implementing good business systems, processes, and standard operating procedures. Our staff experts blog regularly on a range of topics including: Operations Mapping approaches, systems-based management, standardizing operations, calculating costs and ROI for systems improvements and a whole lot more.
Managing Change and Growth
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough . . . Think Forward?
A previous post, “Is Layoff the Layoffs Good Advice?” explored the downside of the knee-jerk reaction many businesses take to negative economic news and the long-term consequences of that approach. This thought from the article “Surviving economic downturn with talent” offers a similar spin on that topic from Ceridian, HR and Corporate Training experts from […] READ MORE
Not Your Father’s SOPs
Think SOPs are boring and just a waste of time? Does creating and updating SOPs always tend to get backburnered at your company because every time you think of SOPs you think of the static, dust-collecting company procedures manual sitting on a shelf somewhere? If so, it’s time to leave old-fashioned models and thinking behind! […] READ MORE
