SMACNA Sponsored Overviews Available

One-to-four hour consulting sessions are available.

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Leadership: Executives Disappointed with Improvement Initiatives

In a recent study, more than 40% of surveyed executives said their company’s performance improvement initiatives failed to achieve their objectives; 45% said their improvement initiatives performed below plan; less than one-third performed above plan.

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Employee Focus - Getting Employees' Ideas

High-performing contractors develop and design means to involve their employees in suggesting and implementing improvements. Many small improvements are often more valuable than focusing on one major improvement that may take years to implement. Hal MaCumber offers food for thought on receiving employees’ ideas.

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Process Management

The September 2004 issue of IndustryWeek reports the main factor that helped world-class companies increase their productivity.

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Keeping Score - A Quick Analysis

With 2004 rapidly drawing to an end, we often take time to look at the year’s performance in assessing our progress. An easy way to evaluate your company’s overall performance is through revenue per employee.

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