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Surviving Best Practices

Posted January 03, 2008 8:20 AM

Often it can be said that best practices are tantamount to good intentions and little more. For example, everyone from corporate leaders to heads of state seems to be promoting energy saving initiatives. Yet it seems results are slow to materialize, making this a common quandary faced by many global businesses. Every business shares the common goal: to deliver the best possible results, irrespective of where the technology or practices come from. What are you doing to make your company the best?

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01/04/2008 12:17 PM

"What are you doing to make your company the best?" Submitting patentable ideas and cost saving suggestions (regardless of whether the company acts upon them or not).

Management's decision to act upon employee submittals is often mediated by cost to benefit and return on investment data or corporate constraints which are seldom known to the submitter.

I submit patentable and cost saving ideas as a personal challenge to increase my value to the company and my company's value in the marketplace.

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01/04/2008 3:03 PM

"What are you doing to make your company the best?"

Ensuring regulatory requirements are understood and we are in compliance with them. Where no rules are in place, or where technology allows improvements, "best management practices" are HIGHLY encouraged. In the end, it pays to be proactive.

Our philosophy includes this: the two keys to success in everything we do are AWARENESS and COMMUNICATION. What we are unaware of, we cannot accomplish. What we do not communicate effectively about, we will not implement effectively.

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