Purchase orders are not just bureaucratic paperwork. They create legally binding contracts between buyers and sellers, enable budgeting, manage expectations, and provide audit evidence. Discover the complete purchase order workflow from requisition to delivery, plus automation strategies to eliminate manual errors.
Change requests are inevitable in project management, proposing alterations to agreed deliverables. Managing them effectively requires documenting the request, assessing scope impact, prioritizing with your team, approving or rejecting based on merit, and communicating the decision to all stakeholders.
Peter Drucker coined the term knowledge workers in 1959 to describe employees whose jobs involve acquiring and using information creatively. These individuals with high education and experience focus on developing strategies and creating new products rather than manual labor. Today, roughly 50% of jobs require employees to use and share knowledge.
Teams that love working together accomplish far more, but most team buildings fail because nobody cares. Activities serve specific purposes: Icebreakers help new teams get to know each other without creepy personal questions, bonding exercises like Minefield build trust so coworkers aren't seen as office serial killers, creative exercises like Marshmallow Challenge unlock brainstorming in work settings, and cooperation activities like Escape Rooms fix yelling and missed deadlines.
Business process improvement tools fall into four categories: process mapping to visualize workflows, problem-solving techniques to find root causes, improvement methodologies like PDCA and DMAIC, and automation software to eliminate manual work and boost productivity.
Business Process Management is a systematic approach to making workflows more effective, efficient, and adaptable. BPM follows a lifecycle of design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization. Organizations using BPM reduce costs, increase flexibility, minimize risk, and achieve measurable results on the road to business growth through better process management.