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Learning From Each Other

Women in Consulting

As solo practitioners and entrepreneurs, often we have limited access to relevant benchmarking resources. Without violating any price-fixing laws, the Best Practices Survey lets us benchmark our success against our peers. My clients are happier too since I can use my virtual assistant for administrative tasks on their business as well.

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Five Ways to Spur Lean in the Office

Markovitz Consulting

If meeting takt time is not an issue—for example, in closing the books at the end of the month— then measure and benchmark the time it takes to perform those tasks and challenge the team to figure out how to do them faster. Workers will often video the other person doing the work so that they can review it together afterwards.)

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Future of Work – ALL Projects ARE Change Leadership Opportunities

Cheryl Cran

Very often when a technology roll outs a lot of focus is on the technical aspects and the benchmarks that are linked to the logical aspects of getting the technology integrated. Link the project to a fun theme and involve teams to create videos for prizes when they have accomplished a piece of the project.