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Understanding Flowcharts for Continuous Process Improvement
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” – William A. Foster Making consistent changes for the better is always a good sign in both the personal and professional lives. As per the quote, achieving top…
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Using Flowcharts to Represent Algorithms
“You have to teach your algorithm what it can do and what it cannot do because, otherwise, there is a risk that the algorithms will learn the tricks of the old cartels” – Margrethe Vestager In our discussions surrounding flowcharts, we are addressing the use of flowcharts to represent algorithms. Both flowcharts and algorithms are…
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Software Testers can Benefit from Flowcharts
“If you don’t like testing your product, most likely your customers will not like to test it either” – Testing Whiz Flowcharts are a commonly used tool in many industries and across businesses, but the software testing industry is still trying to ascertain their use and benefits for testers. We hope to bring some clarity…
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Enhancing Customer Experience and Service Using Flowcharts
“This goes back to technology, so pick a great CRM with job-flow charts” – Tommy Mello Each of us is a customer for some business / company, and in our experience we know that great customer service is usually the difference between staying with a company and leaving it for a competitor. How a business…
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The Decision Tree Flowchart – Guide to Making Better Decisions
“Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit”- William Pollard We are faced with several decisions each day in our life – both personal and professional. There are times when making an…
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Flowchart Diagrams – A Great Visual Aid
“Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation” – Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger While we recognize that written content is super powerful and important, visual content is also an extremely effective and authoritative means to communicate. The human brain is already hardwired to grasp visual content better, and now…
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Use Flowcharts to Enhance Education
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The essence of education is aptly captured in the quote above, and it is necessary for all involved to find new ways to seek…
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Improving Communication within Teams using Flowcharts
“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate” – Joseph Priestley We completely concur with the thought expressed in the quote above, which is why using a simple yet visual tool to improve communication within teams seems like a great idea. Flowcharts – visual diagrams that map out steps for any process…
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Deploying Flowcharts to Understand Six Sigma Methodology
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”– H. James Harrington Devised and initiated in 1986, Six Sigma Methodology is an approach driven…
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Efficacy of Flowcharts in the Purchasing Process
“If you don’t have standardized processes how are you going to provide a consistent way to automate them?” – SupplyChainToday.com Pilfering, inadequate documentation, an unstructured process and more – all together can safely define the purchasing process in both big and small sized companies. The process is further complicated since most companies do not have…
