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Flowcharts are Versatile
“Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It’s not a trade of profits versus principles” – Philip Zimbardo In the world of business today, remaining competitive is one of the greatest challenges. It takes time and effort to explain a process or help others go…
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Importance of a Cross-functional Flowchart
“Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional” – Carlos Ghosn Flowcharts are significantly in use to describe processes – varying in complexity. However, even when using a flowchart to illustrate a process where several people, functions, departments or teams are involved, understanding and tracking responsibilities is sometimes a tough…
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How Flowcharts Help Auditors Improve
Photo by RODNAE Productions “The auditors will look at that and the entire software program and always find something, then report it to the management. If anything is out of line, we are going to find it.” – Andrew Beveridge Auditing is possibly one of the trickier and tougher functions within any company. It is a…
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Top Reasons to Use Flowcharts
“Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached”- Pete Hoekstra With the increasing competition and shrinking resources, business owners struggle on several counts and consistently achieving efficiency in the workplace is one such herculean task. It would make sense therefore, to use any resource, tool, or technology to ensure efficiency. Being able to streamline…
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Challenges in Designing a Good Process Flowchart
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing” – W Edwards Deming The quote clearly illustrates why it would be necessary to overcome the challenges of designing a good process flowchart. The quintessence of a process flowchart is to display sequentially the steps / stages of…
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Why to use HR Process Flowcharts?
Coinage, paper money, joint stock companies, trade guilds, commercial partnerships, collaborations, and incipient capital structures represented some of the earliest manifestations of organized commerce during the last two millennia. Gradually, domestic compulsions and the imperative to trade with overseas partners encouraged certain entities to emerge in Western Europe. The Dutch East India Company and the…
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Principles of Flowchart Design
Contemporary living spaces present instances of functional and highly aesthetic design harnessed to the cause of promoting modern lifestyles. The architects, planners, and designers of such spaces are utilizing a multitude of materials, concepts, sensibilities, human intelligence, and design principles in a bid to break new ground in interior architecture. Muted colors, the widespread use…
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Use of Flowcharts in Software Engineering
Manufacturing ranks among the oldest activities known to humankind. The expanse of human history indicates that the domain of manufacturing touched a range of commodities; these included primitive clothing and early forms of textiles, body armor and the weapons of war, crude toys for children, metal-based fiat currency, wines and intoxicants, perfumes and fragrances, luxury…
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Using Flowcharts as a Problem Solving Tool
Furniture represents one of the least appreciated items in the inventory of a modern household. Every quarter of a residential unit bears some form of furniture that imparts form and function to the space. Duvets, sofa sets, tables, chairs, lawn chairs, beds, side tables, wall cabinets, et al are the most common forms of furniture…
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Characteristics of a Top Quality Flowchart
The civil aviation industry represents a flagship endeavor in the ongoing project of transporting human beings to specific destinations around the globe. The jetliners that power this unique mode of transportation have evolved into models of ergonomically-designed comfort, speed, endurance, not to mention raw engine power. Some observers have likened these machines to time warp…
