Tag: Process maps
A Nine-Step Process Map to Supercharge Your Strategic Communications
Process maps are a powerful enabler of quality. They bring standardization, transparency, and accountability to the activities used to create value for your organization. Process maps sit between higher-level strategy maps and more detailed checklists. Process maps and checklists combined allow you to automate workflow using tools like Process Street. So how about a process map for your…
Procedure Checklists and Workflow Automation
You made it! Here in the final installment of our five-part series on management methodologies we look at the micro level: taking the process map we developed from our balanced scorecard and strategy map, and detailing the tasks required to complete each step in each activity in a procedures checklist. A procedures checklist allows us to organize and prioritize specific tasks,…
A Process Map for the Employee Journey
What’s that you say? You’re done with all your macro management methodologies? Well congratulations, you’re ready to move away from the “big picture” view and start getting operational. We call this the meso level; it’s between macro and micro, and yes, I had to look that term up. It tracks with the Do part of PDCA…
Management Methodologies: Macro, Meso, and Micro
OK, that is a lot of M words! Alliteral attraction aside, management methodologies can be extremely helpful in running an organization. Methodologies give you a community of best practices to learn from, processes to improve, and a way of doing things that can be taught. Methodologies can be deployed along the continuum of business operations,…
