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Safely Navigating the Pay-for-Performance Minefield

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Most of us don’t even like to discuss compensation. Photo by Mathieu Stern on Unsplash.

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Pay. It’s the topic we love to avoid. We don’t discuss it with friends or family. It’s verboten at cocktail parties. Heck, we discuss cancer, religion, and abortion at dinner parties more easily than we talk about our paychecks.

Is Statistical Process Control Still Relevant?

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Control charts help to understand a process’s “personality,” know which questions to ask, when to intervene, and when to leave a process alone. Photo by Erik Kroon on Unsplash.

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In less than two months we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the control chart, a tool most often associated with statistical process control (SPC). Considering SPC from our modern perspective made us ask, “Is SPC still relevant?”

Real-Life Results from Implementing Compliance Management Systems

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An automated compliance management system can deliver staggering results, in some cases saving hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Photo by Anastasia Petrova on Unsplash.

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Companies today implementing automated compliance management systems are motivated by a wide variety of factors.

The Test to Use Before All Other Tests

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When presented with a collection of data from operations or production, many will start their analysis by computing descriptive statistics and fitting a probability model to the data. But before you do this, there’s an easy test that you need to perform.

How to Build Flexibility Into Medical Equipment Inventories

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Medical equipment is a necessary yet substantial investment for any health system.

Dogs and Buns

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“The worst waste,” as Shigeo Shingo once noted, “is the waste we do not see.” Photo by Ball Park Brand on Unsplash.

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In a humorous moment from Steve Martin’s comedy Father of the Bride, there’s a scene where George Banks (Martin) argues with a store clerk that the number of buns in a package is mismatched with the packaged number of hot dogs: “I wanna buy eight hot dogs an

From Inspections to Insights

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The cost of poor quality can be devastating to business: Failed quality control costs manufacturers anywhere between

Want to Achieve Your Dreams?

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Have a massive, daring goal in mind? Breaking it into smaller steps can help you achieve your dreams.

Top Considerations for Compliance Management Tools

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Implementing an automated compliance management solution is a mammoth undertaking with high stakes and potentially high returns for those who navigate the process successfully.

Cultivating a Culture of Candor

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Instead of encouraging employees to be vulnerable (exposing themselves to risk), leaders need to act in ways that reduce the risk or danger. Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash.

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I’ve learned so much from Timothy R. Clark of the firm LeaderFactor, and author of the excellent book, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety (Berrett-Koehler, 2020).

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