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Design thinking follows 6 distinct phases - Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, and Implement - to match user needs with feasible technology. Companies like Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola use this methodology to solve real problems based on data rather than assumptions, minimizing innovation risk while leveraging collective team expertise.
What is a fishbone diagram? Find out what it is, how to create a fishbone drawing - and how it can help you to trace and solve problems at their source.
A process improvement plan documents your strategy for optimizing workflows and eliminating bottlenecks. Learn the ten essential steps to create an effective plan, from selecting processes to testing changes, and ensure employee adoption through visual thinking and co-creation approaches that make improvements stick.
Forrester research shows 73% of consumers say valuing their time is most important for good service. Digital process automation documents every change in real-time, keeping teams aligned even after sweeping changes. Analytics help managers pinpoint improvement areas rapidly without manually analyzing huge data chunks, while automated systems handle mechanical steps and humans contribute intuition and creativity.
A sales clerk spending 10 minutes daily fetching printouts wastes 50 minutes weekly; multiply by number of clerks and you lose hours of productive time. Workflow analysis identifies bottlenecks, redundant tasks like reports never analyzed, and inefficient layouts. Small time wasters cumulatively cost businesses massive amounts, and employees complete unnecessary work simply because they were told years ago.
McDonald's Big Macs taste the same everywhere and Starbucks operates in 55+ countries using the same lingua franca (Venti Latte), proving consistency enables replication and global growth. Research shows disengaged employees have 37% higher absenteeism and 60% more errors, while highly engaged teams get 100% more job applications.