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Facility Inspection and Production Rounds Checklist

Are your paper-based inspection reports becoming a burden for your organization?  Filling out a paper everytime you want to start operations can be tedious. Especially if you are doing it to check issues that were not present the previous day. Frontline workers tasked with these daily inspections end up not giving the paper-based inspection checklists […]

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Health & Safety Process Improvement Processes Productivity Uncategorized workflow management

Everything You Need To Know About SOAP Notes

A SOAP note is a method of standardized note-taking used by healthcare professionals to document important information about a patient. An abbreviation for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan, millions of SOAP notes are written every single day all over the world. Essentially, it’s the sheet of paper a physician might attach to a patient’s chart […]

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Human Resources Manufacturing Productivity

DACI: Your 5-Step Guide for Effective Decision-Making and Teamwork

Being part of a great team is extremely important for many, with over one-third of workers acknowledging the benefits of effective teamwork. Working well together facilitates the generation of creative ideas, boosts productivity, employee morale, and relieves stress. But how do you ensure teamwork in your business is effective? In this FAT FINGER article, we […]

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Processes Productivity Quality Control Uncategorized

Identify Inefficiencies, Cut Costs and Improve Transparency Using a Workflow Diagram

Don’t lose money due to poorly managed business workflows. Read this post to learn about the humble workflow diagram today!

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Process Improvement Processes Productivity Uncategorized

Muda: What It Is & How to Easily Remove Waste In Essential Processes

Waste (aka ‘muda’). It’s something that we just don’t like. From waking up too late and feeling like we’ve wasted time, to wasting food (us Americans waste over 150,000 tonnes of food each day), to walking along a street that’s piled up with garbage, the majority of us don’t want to contribute to or be […]

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Kaizen Event: How to Go About Continuous Business Improvement Like a Pro

As modern-day humans, we relish self-improvement. It’s why each New Year — and in many cases each quarter, month, or even every week — we set ourselves goals so we can become better, bolder people. But improvements, of course, aren’t only relegated to people.  In a business context, what about the workflow processes your team […]

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Processes Productivity Uncategorized

Process Design: What It Is, Why You Need It, & How To Get It Right

Flat-pack furniture instructions. Do you follow them to a ‘T’ or leave them in the box?  Although it takes me twice as long, I never have the right tools at hand, and I always have to re-build parts – I rarely follow instructions when building my flat-pack wardrobes, chairs, and tables.  Why?  Because they can […]

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Processes Productivity

Time = Money. How to Save Both with Workflow Analysis

Wasted time. How much time do you spend sitting in traffic? Attending unnecessary meetings? Searching for lost documents? Or using outdated, slow, and difficult systems?  There is nothing worse or more harmful than wasted time. Companies lose 20-30% of revenue each year due to inefficiencies like these. “More than a third of a worker’s day […]