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Business Efficiency For Dummies
Author(s): Marina Martin (Author)
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publication Date: 18 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 408 pages
- ISBN-10: 1118449495
- ISBN-13: 9781118449493
Book Description
Proven tools and techniques to improve business efficiency In today’s competitive environment, it’s the businesses with the right set of tools and technologies that get ahead, while others are left in the dust. Business Efficiency For Dummies provides you with practical, useful information on how to run a more effective business while saving time and money in the process. Analyzing the world’s most effective companies and aimed at top-level business owners and managers, Business Efficiency For Dummies provides the foundation all companies can build upon. You’ll discover how to take an objective view of your company’s current processes and procedures; what to consider when evaluating analysis tools like Six Sigma, Lean, 5S, and Balanced Scorecard to get your company buttoned up and streamlined; how to audit your company’s accounting procedures to rein in and control your AP and AR departments; how to train employees to work more efficiently; how to bring efficiency into the future; and much more. * Find out how to stay afloat in the current economy * Discover affordable, approachable methods for streamlining business practices for greater profit * Employ the latest tools and technologies to maximize business efficiency The tools and techniques described in Business Efficiency For Dummies are indispensable for business leaders and managers looking to identify weaknesses and improve business productivity and profit.
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Learn to:
- Run your business more effectively and efficiently
- Save time and money
- Audit your company’s accounting procedures
- Employ proven time management, organizational, and motivational techniques
Proven tools and techniques to improve your business efficiency
In today’s competitive environment, it’s the businesses with the right set of tools and technologies that succeed, rather than get ahead, while others are left in the dust. Business Efficiency For Dummies provides you with practical, useful information on how to run a more effective business ? while saving time and money in the process.
- Business Efficiency 101 ? find out what sorts of returns business efficiency can have for your organization and get a detailed overview of popular efficiency-enhancing methodologies
- Your efficiency toolkit ? measure where you are now, brainstorm and recognize inefficiencies in your organization, and understand how making a change in one corner can have huge effects on another
- An efficiency roadmap ? get your creative juices flowing on process automation opportunities in multiple areas, complete with step-by-step instructions for many of the highest-yield improvements out there
- Effective change management ? discover how to enhance personal efficiency ? something every employee can benefit from ? and get the tools to generate and execute efficient project plans in your everyday work lives
Open the book and find:
- Ways inefficiency negatively impacts your business
- Information on Six Sigma, Lean, and Balanced Scorecard Strategy
- How to identify, address, and measure success
- The most common efficiency analyses
- Business efficiency checklists
- Example scenarios and what they tell you
- Means of enhancing customer service, human resources, sales, manufacturing, and more
About the Author
Marina Martin is the owner of The Type-A Way, a business efficiency consulting firm focusing on cost reduction and job satisfaction enhancement through innovation and automation. She regularly conducts one-on-one and small group trainings.
