Understanding your stakeholders is a crucial part of project management. If you don’t carefully manage stakeholders and their concerns and expectations, you risk generating backlash to your project, ...

Healthcare design is a complicated, iterative process of back-and-forth communication between stakeholders and the design team. The first step is understanding the purpose of the building or space to ...

Process mapping is a vital technique for visualizing and understanding business processes. It allows you to outline each step involved in a workflow, effectively transforming the invisible into the ...

Flowchart vs. process map, what do you choose to use? When it comes to mapping out a project, you’ve got several choices on how to visualize them. If you’ve had trouble deciding on a format for your ...

Value stream mapping is a visual means to depict and improve the flow of manufacturing and production process, as well as the information that controls the flow of materials through the process. It is ...

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As a small-business owner, do not confuse stakeholders and shareholders. While shareholders own a part of your business, stakeholders include anyone who has an interest in how well your business does.

I mapped my first business process diagram over 35 years ago when I joined Accenture. I used a hierarchical diagram format called IDEF0 to describe an ERP system we were implementing at a U.K. defense ...

Value stream map vs. process map, which is better for you? As with many tools and methods in Six Sigma, there isn’t a ...