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Why Employees Create Workarounds—and What They Reveal About Your Process

Someone creates a spreadsheet to track work that isn’t visible in the system. Another employee keeps a personal reminder list because there’s no reliable notification when something needs attention. A team starts sending side emails because the normal handoff doesn’t provide enough information. Someone enters the same information into two systems because they don’t communicate […]

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How Cross-Functional Process Friction Affects Departmental Performance

A department misses its performance target. Where do leaders usually look first? Inside the department. They examine staffing. Productivity. Training. Workload. Procedures. Individual performance. Those are reasonable places to investigate. But what if part of the problem isn’t inside the department at all? What if the department’s performance is being affected by how work reaches […]

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Why Rework Is a Warning Sign in Your Business Process

Why Rework Is a Warning Sign in Your Business Process On the way to completing the work, someone discovers a problem. Information is missing. Something was entered incorrectly. An approval wasn’t obtained. A requirement wasn’t understood. A handoff was incomplete. So the work goes backward. Someone corrects it, resubmits it, and the process moves forward […]

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Who Owns a Business Process That Crosses Departments?

Everyone owns a piece. But who owns the process? That question becomes especially important when work crosses departments. Sales completes its activities and hands the work to Operations. Operations performs its responsibilities and sends something to Finance. Finance completes its portion and passes information somewhere else. Each department may be doing exactly what it is […]

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