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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

Operational Efficiency and Process Improvement Efficient operations are crucial for small businesses to streamline workflows, reduce costs, and enhance productivity. Consultants assess existing processes, identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and implement strategies for process optimization and automation.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. The customer feels cheated if some additional charge comes up on their credit card or if they are denied some discount or insurance claim which was very publicly advertised. Improve your processes and invest in technology.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. The customer feels cheated if some additional charge comes up on their credit card or if they are denied some discount or insurance claim which was very publicly advertised. Improve your processes and invest in technology.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

The process improves farm productivity and reduces input waste by using analytics to facilitate data-driven farming practices for small-scale farmers. Major global corporations have tried to advance digitalization of African agriculture by launching payment systems , credit platforms , and digital insurance.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

This process-improvement methodology includes workflow redesign, error proofing, best-practice implementation, cost bundling, financial risk sharing, and outcomes measurement. More than 90% of those patients heed that recommendation and do not go on to have surgery at home through traditional insurance.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Using the continuous process improvement methods that were developed for the experiment, the manager is now working to reach a 30% reduction goal over a longer time frame. Of the 75 participants, 80% completed their projects and produced tangible results and business insights. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

While the program does have marginal costs (more on this further on) we feel that the benefits in terms of learning, process improvement, and patient experience more than offset these. Our health insurance plan had properly notified its members about a new $1,000 copayment for a certain type of surgery.

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