The Quick Business Optimizations Handbook


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It is a well-understood axiom of the business world that there are two ways to improve the bottom line of any business. To make money or to cut costs. Better yet, BOTH! When a business turns its eye to cost cutting, the business owners will discover significant bleeding of revenues that are going on within the business. So if those systems can be improved to eliminate that waste, while retaining the same, or even improving quality of output, the business would literally make money from the inside out! This book is all about tweaking, optimizing the many different processes and components in any business operation. Just by applying some techniques you'll learn from this guide will easily translate to a lot of money for you-guaranteed! It doesnt matter what industry you're in, the principles contained here WILL WORK! In fact, how can you survive if you're bleeding money from unnecessary expenses, from redundant and inefficient business processes? ================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= Introduction Systematize The Key Areas Of Business Eliminating Distractions Business Plans Updating Business Plans Business Process Management The Future Of Bpm The Business Process Management Ideals Tweaking Human Workflows In Summary: Discern How Your Business Operates Prepare A Roadmap Think Big, Act Small Involve All Your Stakeholders Choose The Tools That Best Suits Your Needs Use Professional Services When Necessary Identification Rethink Automations Plan Design Making A Strategy Flow Map Cost Reduction Potential It Options To Help With The Issue Bpms Implementation Expected Advantages Enterprise Automations Benefits Of Automation Mlm Automation Example Ebay.Com Automation Example Cost-Benefit Analysis Leveraging The Internet In Your Business Incorporating Offline And Online Marketing For Success A Shrinking World Virtual Establishments Knowledge Management Systems Online Training Business Process Outsourcing (Bpo) About Tracking Tracking Websites Examples Of Other Metrics Theory Of Constraints Mindsets Training Attitudes Defined Customer Relationship Management (Crm) Practices Lean Production Systems Idea Management Mind Mapping How Do You Mind Map? Corporate Time Management




Business Optimization


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"It takes a structured and systematic approach to change a business model and successfully reengineer your company. Dr. Howes' approach to business optimization provides a logical and accountable methodology to transition your organization to the desired future state."




Website Optimization


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Step-by-step instructions for executing a website testing and optimization plan Website optimization is can be an overwhelming endeavor due to the fact that it encompasses so many strategic and technical issues. However, this hands-on, task-based book demystifies this potentially intimidating topic by offering smart, practical, and tested instructions for developing, implementing, managing, and tracking website optimization efforts. After you learn how to establish an optimization framework, you then dive into learning how to develop a plan, test appropriately and accurately, interpret the results, and optimize in order to maximize conversion rates and improve profits. Zeroes in on fundamentals such as understanding key metrics, choosing analytics tools, researching visitors and their onsite behavior, and crafting a plan for what to test and optimize Walks you through testing and optimizing specific web pages including the homepage, entry and exit pages, product and pricing pages, as well as the shopping cart and check-out process Guides you through important optimization areas such as optimizing text and images Addresses advanced topics including paid search optimization, Facebook fan page optimization, rich media, and more Includes a companion website that features expanded examples, additional resources, tool reviews, and other related information Full of interesting case studies and helpful examples drawn from the author's own experience, Website Optimization: An Hour a Day is the complete solution for anyone who wants to get the best possible results from their web page.




Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Website


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Revised edition of the author's Ultimate guide to search engine optimization.




Service Design for Business


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A practical approach to better customer experience through service design Service Design for Business helps you transform your customer's experience and keep them engaged through the art of intentional service design. Written by the experts at Livework, this practical guide offers a tangible, effective approach for better responding to customers' needs and demands, and provides concrete strategy that can be implemented immediately. You'll learn how taking a design approach to problem solving helps foster creativity, and how to apply it to the real issues that move businesses forward. Highly visual and organized for easy navigation, this quick read is a handbook for connecting market factors to the organizational challenge of customer experience by seeing your company through the customers' eyes. Livework pioneered the service design industry, and guides organizations including Sony, the British Government, Volkswagen Procter & Gamble, the BBC, and more toward a more carefully curated customer experience. In this book, the Livework experts show you how to put service design to work in your company to solve the ongoing challenge of winning with customers. Approach customer experience from a design perspective See your organization through the lens of the customer Make customer experience an organization-wide responsibility Analyze the market factors that dovetail with customer experience design The Internet and other digital technology has brought the world to your customers' fingertips. With unprecedented choice, consumers are demanding more than just a great product—the organizations coming out on top are designing and delivering experiences tailored to their customers' wants. Service Design for Business gives you the practical insight and service design perspective you need to shape the way your customers view your organization.




Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization


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This is a supplementary volume to the major three-volume Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization set. It can also be regarded as a stand-alone volume presenting chapters dealing with various aspects of the subject in a self-contained way.




Operations management for executives.


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Operations Management for Executives reveals all that managers should know to be able to turn the operations of their companies into a source of competitive advantage. Understanding operations is key to improve how any organization actually works. In fact, excellence and innovation in operations have played an essential role in many of the great success business stories of our time: Zara, Ikea, Dell, Amazon, Toyota, Alibaba. In this book, the authors explain operations management from a general management standpoint. They provide a practical guidebook focused on: •Understanding the key concepts and methodologies •Avoiding unnecessary technicalities•Analyzing the impact of operations in all areas of a company•Revealing key levers to help managers realize the full potential of their companies. This book covers traditional areas in operations management, such as process design, capacity analysis, inventory management and queueing theory, or quality management. In addition, you’ll find advanced topics such as lean management, procurement, supply chain management, as well as aspects that are seldom addressed in other operations books, such as project management, human and organizational factors in operations, and operations innovation.




Optimizing Growth


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Leverage big data and demand into sustainable profitable growth Optimizing Growth is a handbook for how to succeed in the age of big data. Today’s business environment looks dramatically different than it did even a decade ago, and it continues to evolve at an increasing rate; macroeconomic shifts, consumer trends, technological advances, and changing competitive dynamics are accelerating the pace of change, and businesses are struggling to grow amidst the turbulence. This book provides insightful guidance, real-world success stories and practical tools to achieve growth in this new era, utilizing big data to achieve a deeper understanding of demand, customers, competitors, and opportunity. With disruption around every corner, growth now demands innovative new approaches and an improved capacity to meet customer needs; by gaining a stronger grasp of demand, businesses can elevate performance from “survive” to “thrive.” This book provides the approaches, analytics, frameworks, and organizational capabilities required to gain competitive advantage, and describes the new mindset required to leverage these tools into sustainable growth. Develop a deeper understanding of your business’s growth factors Re-sync your thinking to gain greater leverage against disruption Delve deeper into demand, and boost fulfillment capabilities Capture more growth opportunities using precision analytics frameworks The one thing that will never change about business is the goal of growth—but the paths to growth change continuously. New opportunities forge new routes to the top, while others become obsolete—does your company know the difference? The ability to differentiate between fads and genuine evolution is more critical than ever before. Optimizing Growth provides deep knowledge of what’s out there, and a clear framework for forging ahead.




Optimization and Business Improvement Studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry


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Delves into the core and functional areas in the upstream oil and gas industry covering a wide range of operations and processes Oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) activities are costly, risky and technology-intensive. With the rise in global demand for oil and fast depletion of easy reserves, the search for oil is directed to more difficult areas – deepwater, arctic region, hostile terrains; and future production is expected to come from increasingly difficult reserves – deeper horizon, low quality crude. All these are making E&P activities even more challenging in terms of operations, technology, cost and risk. Therefore, it is necessary to use scarce resources judiciously and optimize strategies, cost and capital, and improve business performance in all spheres of E&P business. Optimization and Business Improvement Studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry contains eleven real-life optimization and business improvement studies that delve into the core E&P activities and functional areas covering a wide range of operations and processes. It uses various quantitative and qualitative techniques, such as Linear Programing, Queuing theory, Critical Path Analysis, Economic analysis, Best Practices Benchmark, Business Process Simplification etc. to optimize Productivity of drilling operations Controllable rig time loss Deepwater exploration strategy Rig move time and activity schedule Offshore supply vessel fleet size Supply chain management system Strategic workforce and human resource productivity Base oil price for a country Standardize consumption of materials Develop uniform safety standards for offshore installations Improve organizational efficiency through business process simplification The book will be of immense interest to practicing managers, professionals and employees at all levels/ disciplines in oil and gas industry. It will also be useful to academicians, scholars, educational institutes, energy research institutes, and consultants dealing with oil and gas. The work can be used as a practical guide to upstream professionals and students in petroleum engineering programs.




Insurance Agency Optimization


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Insurance Agency Optimization was written by a multi-line insurance agency owner, for multi-line insurance agency owners. It was written to help agency owners understand that they are not alone. The reality is almost nobody who owns an insurance agency ever planned on owning an insurance agency. Once upon a time I was a highly successful salesperson, or sales manager, or corporate executive or somebody special in some other field. Then, I got sick of working for somebody else and I thought it would be awesome to own my own business, create my own schedule, make tons of money, travel the world and golf a lot. So I opened my own insurance agency. The problem is insurance agency owners who jumped into this industry during the 21st century have a much different looking opportunity than those who came before them. It's still a tremendous opportunity, but the rewards aren't realized until several years of dues are paid. This book was written to save agency owners time and money as an alternative to present day trainings and seminars which offer quick fixes, silver bullets and shortcuts to success; none of which exist. Insurance Agency Optimization uses simple, easy to understand mindsets, systems and processes which have worked in all sales industries since the beginning of time. This book focuses on the common denominators all successful agencies share. Readers will learn to consistently focus on daily disciplines which increase levels of health, happiness and overall productivity. You'll be given the essential mindset required to win each moment so you can win every day. And it will provide you and your teams with the tools required to dominate your market and ultimately work so efficiently your competition cannot even be compared to you. The insurance business is simple, but it's certainly not easy. You recruit, hire, train, educate and continuously motivate highly productive team members. You get to know your prospects by having conversations which uncover needs and then you offer the best possible solutions to satisfy those needs. Sounds simple, but again...it's not easy. This book was written and The Positive Impact Club was developed to make your life as the proud owner of a multi-line insurance agency much easier and will put you and your team on the right path to: Recognize and optimize every customer opportunity within every interaction each and every day Stand above and ultimately eliminate your competition Create a winning office culture with personal and team accountability Plan, prepare, track and ultimately WIN every day Implement a simple, repeatable sales processes to uncover multiple customer needs within one relaxed conversation EARN more referrals, ELIMINATE wasted marketing dollars and RETAIN more customers than ever before Become the happiest, healthiest and most productive version of yourself Perhaps you didn't fully understand what you were jumping into when you opened your insurance agency. And chances are you often times feel overwhelmed, confused or frustrated. The good news is you are not alone. The better news is there are proven ways to improve your results spelled out in this book. The best news is, this book will show you how to close the "knowledge/action gap." It's great to know things, but without action knowledge is useless. Insurance Agency Optimization will challenge you to take one, two or three key components that best suit your agency and implement them immediately. The strategies shared in this book are proven to work and grow your business regardless of where you are today. After reading Insurance Agency Optimizationand joining The Positive Impact Club the only regret you'll have is that you didn't know all of this sooner!