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How to Use Cause and Effect Diagram to Solve Business Problems

Problems are always part of the businesses. The task of an entrepreneur is to detect and solve them. But besides discovering and removing the problems, entrepreneurs have to pay attention to their preventive removal, so they would never again harm the business. The cause and effect diagram, or as it is called a fishbone diagram, can help you in this.

What I can see when it comes to the problem-solving process that entrepreneurs employ is the following:

They partially solve the problem.
They solve the problem without removing the reasons for its occurrence.
They recognize reasons that are not essential for the occurrence of the problem.
There is a lack of an entrepreneur to see the problem-solving process as a business improvement process.

How can you avoid such undesirable things in your business?

The answer is simple, proper analysis of the situation, identifying root causes for the occurrence, and removing them, which will provide such a case never again to be part of a process.

Among the various tools for such an analysis is a cause and effect diagram, also known as a fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram.

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Improve Your Business Starting With These 5 Ideas

Business Planning / By Dragan Sutevski, PhD

As an entrepreneur, probably you want to improve your business. Improvement is an everyday job for all of us, as human beings, but also as entrepreneurs. Without improvements, you can’t expect to succeed in your entrepreneurial journey.

So, you already know that you need to work on a regular basis to improve your business and now is the right time to start doing something about this.

Here I would like to share five ideas that you can use to discover possible areas ready for improvements in order to help you to improve your business, or you can simply use some of the ideas and action steps covered in 77 business improvements in 77 days.

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15 Business Virtualization Tools That Will Simplify Your Operations

Technology / By Dragan Sutevski, PhD

Business virtualization means that your company can become a virtual or partially virtual organization. Therefore certain operations in your business will operate without the presence of yourself or one of your employees. For example, you can attend a virtual meeting instead of an actual physical meeting as a part of your business virtualization process. Here I would like to share 15 different business virtualization tools that you can start using today.

Every day on the market comes to some new technologies that can find a place in your business. Business processes are becoming more and more complex, so you need to use as much as possible business virtualization. As you pass through the next stages of the life cycle of your business, the complexity of the work is more significant. It requires a different collaboration, outsourcing, virtual employees, and offices.

We can not stop the trends of business virtualization if we want to stay on the path to success. These are trends that facilitate the operation of the business and increase the effectiveness of your business processes.

Here, are 15 tools that can help your business to utilize global business virtualization processes and become a more virtual company.

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7 Benefits You Will Get if You Implement Business Systems in Your Company

Management / By Dragan Sutevski, PhD

Implementing business systems is one of the best things you can do for your company. They will give you many benefits only if you properly design them, apply them and not excessively emphasize the administrative function that can turn your company into a bureaucratic organization.

This is the second part of the series of posts related to business systems. The first part is about how you can implement business systems into your company. In this post, I will continue to talk about several benefits for entrepreneurs and small businesses when they perform a systematic approach to their companies.

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How to Implement Business Systems in Your Company?

Management, Tutorials / By Dragan Sutevski, PhD

A company without systems is a company without a compass in the jungle. Implementing business systems to help you and your employees accomplish the tasks at hand is key to ensuring that your business keeps growing.

If you want high potential company, you need to create systems on which the whole work will depend. Your company is a system that requires subsystems to operate normally.

How do you make a difference when it comes to running a business? The answer is simple. You implement systems! And, the good news is that by using a proven 8-step process, anyone can turn their organization into a machine for generating profits!

You are an entrepreneur, and one of your responsibilities is to manage the businesses if you want to grow. On the other hand, managing, in simplest words, can be presented as systematizing all business activities that your business must accomplish to ensure that your company will deliver value to the customers.

Today we will review eight of the most important steps to implement systems that will help you run your business more effectively and efficiently.

So, let’s start first by explaining what the system means, so you can start creating standard operating procedures.

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