The idea of business dashboards is not new. What is new is that dashboards have become a mainstream management tool and now upper management may request access to dashboards. Business dashboards typically provide a graphical display of critical information such as day to day data, key performance indicators (KPIs) or benchmarks. One of the main problems, however, is the lack of availability of dashboards. One of the few companies that offers a dashboard is RSA.
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- Howie Fenton
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- 20 June 2020
Solutions for Resolving COVID-19 Staffing and Delivery Challenges that May be the New Norm
Solutions for resolving COVID-19 work from home, staff cross training and delivery challenges that may be the new norm, and questions to prepare for the future.
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- 13 May 2020
How to Estimate Staffing Needs as Workload Changes
Howie Fenton shares a method to estimate staffing needs as your revenue changes using your current sales per employee ratio (SPE) and anticipated revenue changes. Adding automation and shifting and cross training staff can address workflow gaps and bottlenecks that result from staff imbalances.
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- 18 March 2020
VLOG: Steps 7- 9 of Nine Steps to In-plant Profitability Series
This vlog is the final post of our three-part series about the nine steps that I see that in-plants need to take to increase their financial stability.
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- 13 March 2020
How To Change Your Workflow to Prepare for Post-COVID-19 Preparing to Return to Work
How to change your workflow to prepare for Post-COVID-19 discusses the impact of COVID-19 on workflow from preparing to return to work, working remotely and preparing for a recession.
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- 04 March 2020
Nine Steps to In-plant Financial Stability
Learn from industry specialists how increasing revenue involves more than just understanding your costs and tracking metrics.
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- 12 February 2020
VLOG: Steps 4 - 6 of 9 Steps to In-plant Profitability Series
This vlog is part two of a three-part series about the nine steps that I see that in-plants need to take to increase their financial stability. While not every in-plant has an operating model to be profitable, in-plants can use these steps to ensure that they are meeting their financial goals.
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- 27 January 2020
Nine Steps to In-plant Profitability
In this vlog, I start a three-part series about the nine steps that I see that in-plants need to take to increase their profitability. While not every in-plant has a model to be profitable, in-plants can use these steps to ensure they are not losing money or operating below cost, and are operating as efficiently as possible for their parent organization.
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- 10 December 2019
Seven Ideas for Creative Problem Solving and Five Examples
The idea for this post came from answers to interviews in a recent IPMA research report that shows how some in-plant leaders are trying new answers to old questions. This article describes five “out of the box” solutions in-plants have used and offers seven ways to help you get outside your “box.”
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- 18 November 2019
Video: Two Things In-plants Need for Survival
Howie Fenton interviews RSA about the two-pronged approach in-plants need to survive. Reducing print production costs and building more value-added products and services to offset the decline of traditional products are the two things in-plant print centers need to do to remain competitive and use the balanced scorecard approach