Archive for June 21st, 2009
Posted on June 21, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle
Streamlining Processes to Achieve Organizational Goals
jaya sinha asked:
In order to meet the organizational goals, individual goals first need to be met. And meeting up with individual goals requires effective planning and streamlining of processes to finally lead the organization towards business success. Often change management is enabled and certain standards are adopted to fulfil goals. But, before any activities are undertaken, goals must be set out clearly. The goals should be such that it should yield profits and must be quantified so that they can be measured. It is difficult setting goals for each and every employee so certain specific or key result areas are defined where work can be set on targets to improve performance. The goals are also destined for a specific time period within which they need to be achieved.
Once the goals are defined, certain methodology has to be adopted in order to streamline each process. The organizational goals are linked to mission statement so each employee should be made the importance of the mission statement understood. Each employee should set the individual targets from himself and work towards the individual objectives as set by his superior.
The key elements of any work commitment towards fulfilling individual goals and organizational goals should be the following:
Prioritise key tasks and remain dedicated: All employees in an organization should prioritise his tasks in order to remain focused. The tasks in the order of priority should be taken up one by one and then persistence and dedication is required to achieve it.
Focus on Team work: Although, individual contribution from every employee is important, unless there is team contribution, an organization can reap profits. Those who work in teams and emphasize on organizational culture emerge out to be the winners.
Enable good leadership role: The supervisors and managers should display effective leadership to lead the teams. One should lead by example. One must also adopt a good leadership style. Generally, a supportive style of leadership is preferred by employees and is also beneficial to the organization.
Good relations with clients: This is one of the most important area which should be build up with each passing day as the customers are stepping stone to success. If there are no users of your products, you will not have any existence.
Enable good quality of workforce: The quality of workforce has to be maintained in order to be successful. These are ultimately the backbone of any organization.
Enable a sound organization culture and a learning organization: A good working culture goes a long way in realizing the organizational objectives.
These are some of the few strategies to achieving organizational goals. With the current industry atmosphere, the need is to realign IT with other functional areas to achieve success.
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In order to meet the organizational goals, individual goals first need to be met. And meeting up with individual goals requires effective planning and streamlining of processes to finally lead the organization towards business success. Often change management is enabled and certain standards are adopted to fulfil goals. But, before any activities are undertaken, goals must be set out clearly. The goals should be such that it should yield profits and must be quantified so that they can be measured. It is difficult setting goals for each and every employee so certain specific or key result areas are defined where work can be set on targets to improve performance. The goals are also destined for a specific time period within which they need to be achieved.
Once the goals are defined, certain methodology has to be adopted in order to streamline each process. The organizational goals are linked to mission statement so each employee should be made the importance of the mission statement understood. Each employee should set the individual targets from himself and work towards the individual objectives as set by his superior.
The key elements of any work commitment towards fulfilling individual goals and organizational goals should be the following:
Prioritise key tasks and remain dedicated: All employees in an organization should prioritise his tasks in order to remain focused. The tasks in the order of priority should be taken up one by one and then persistence and dedication is required to achieve it.
Focus on Team work: Although, individual contribution from every employee is important, unless there is team contribution, an organization can reap profits. Those who work in teams and emphasize on organizational culture emerge out to be the winners.
Enable good leadership role: The supervisors and managers should display effective leadership to lead the teams. One should lead by example. One must also adopt a good leadership style. Generally, a supportive style of leadership is preferred by employees and is also beneficial to the organization.
Good relations with clients: This is one of the most important area which should be build up with each passing day as the customers are stepping stone to success. If there are no users of your products, you will not have any existence.
Enable good quality of workforce: The quality of workforce has to be maintained in order to be successful. These are ultimately the backbone of any organization.
Enable a sound organization culture and a learning organization: A good working culture goes a long way in realizing the organizational objectives.
These are some of the few strategies to achieving organizational goals. With the current industry atmosphere, the need is to realign IT with other functional areas to achieve success.
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Posted on June 21, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle
Organizational Curlture: How to Model and Structure Your Business
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I would like to share with you what I learned about different organizational structures while researching and reading about foundations of organization structures. What I was thinking about while reading about the different concepts or models was their implementation. Does a corporation who builds their structure one way really need to keep it organized the same way forever? Making changes to your corporate organization isn’t easy but each of the models I read about has its own advantage. We can’t figure out simply which is the best structure for companies as different situation create different results.
Structures are the frame of companies to carry out leader’s ideas and operate its business. A good structure is not the only factor of a corporation’s success; however, a good structure can bring the minimum encumbrance and make the management well ordered. Basing on different market environment, region or other factors, structures should be changed if it is no longer fit for corporation’s development, or it will increase the costs, difficulties and reduce the profits. Otherwise, culture is an important part affecting organization. An excellent corporation must have cultures which agglomerate its people to achieve the same goal.
Due to the speedy developing of the society and emerging of new technologies, more and more new structures or theories of organization will continue to be used and corporations will continue to move forward and adapt when needed. Selecting a suitable organizational design will help companies manage but they will never stop researching bigger and better ideas to improve their organizational structure. 104inc.com can make it easy for you to adapt for the future!
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I would like to share with you what I learned about different organizational structures while researching and reading about foundations of organization structures. What I was thinking about while reading about the different concepts or models was their implementation. Does a corporation who builds their structure one way really need to keep it organized the same way forever? Making changes to your corporate organization isn’t easy but each of the models I read about has its own advantage. We can’t figure out simply which is the best structure for companies as different situation create different results.
Structures are the frame of companies to carry out leader’s ideas and operate its business. A good structure is not the only factor of a corporation’s success; however, a good structure can bring the minimum encumbrance and make the management well ordered. Basing on different market environment, region or other factors, structures should be changed if it is no longer fit for corporation’s development, or it will increase the costs, difficulties and reduce the profits. Otherwise, culture is an important part affecting organization. An excellent corporation must have cultures which agglomerate its people to achieve the same goal.
Due to the speedy developing of the society and emerging of new technologies, more and more new structures or theories of organization will continue to be used and corporations will continue to move forward and adapt when needed. Selecting a suitable organizational design will help companies manage but they will never stop researching bigger and better ideas to improve their organizational structure. 104inc.com can make it easy for you to adapt for the future!
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Posted on June 21, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle
Sustainable Office Named Nation’s Greenest
Jane Shepherd asked:
A pilot project to create a ‘green’ workplace in the unlikely setting of a 1960s London office block has been named one of the most sustainable buildings in the UK.
Morgan Lovell’s pioneering development of a sustainable office of the future has taken the fit out title in the 2008 UK BREEAM Awards.
BREEAM (the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is a world-leading environmental assessment method for buildings.
As specialists in the design and build of offices, Morgan Lovell set about creating a green workplace at their headquarters – located in Noel Street, Soho – last year.
The company’s in-house team pooled their expertise and eventually achieved the highest BREEAM fit out environmental assessment score in the UK to date for the project, an ‘Excellent’ rating with a total mark of 76 per cent – awarded in March this year.
David Henderson, managing director of Morgan Lovell, said: “We wanted to challenge the common misconception that it is impossible or too hard to green an existing or older building.
“The refurbishment of our own office provided the ideal opportunity to tackle the issue and transform an older office into a model of sustainability.
“It was an ambitious project. The office exists across two floors of a 1960s, seven-storey, multi-tenanted office block – the type of building that would normally be considered an environmental write-off.
“Even the external experts felt that to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating in such an old building would be very difficult, if not impossible.
“Now, the completed project offers a blueprint to help reduce the significant carbon footprint currently pounding the UK from office buildings.
“Almost 50 per cent of the UK’s carbon emissions come from buildings and most companies are housed in ‘older’ environmentally unfriendly developments.
“We’ve found that UK businesses often hold the view that to reduce their carbon footprint they need to build a new office – a process considered as massively expensive and out of reach for most.
“16 Noel Street proves you can take an old building and make it ‘green’ without having the cost and upheaval of moving office or affecting the fabric of the building.”
With almost 100,000 buildings certified and over half a million registered, BREEAM sets the standard in sustainable design and is the most recognised measure of a building’s environmental performance.
A spokesman from BRE Global – the body behind BREEAM – said: “The winners of the BREEAM 2008 Awards truly represent the UK’s top examples of sustainable design.”
Find out more about green office interiors at http://www.morganlovell.com/sustainability
ENDS
Notes to Editors
About Morgan Lovell’s Green Office
Morgan Lovell was placed seventh for having the ‘greenest employees’ in the Sunday Times Green Companies List announced in May 2008 – the new office rated heavily in that success.
Features of the refit include recycled plastic bottles for kitchen surfaces and clay based paints to reduce solvent emissions.
To limit waste, furniture was reused – and products including flooring and furniture sourced as locally as possible with a high recycled content and themselves recyclable. Desks and computers not needed were given to charity.
Lighting, heating and cooling are zoned across the office floors. Sensors deploy lighting in zones only where people are working and lights adjust automatically to the natural conditions so less artificial light is needed. Heat rejected in areas being cooled is used to warm other parts of the building as required.
All of the energy demand is supplied from renewable energy sources, purchased from The Green Energy Company.
Other improvements include the well-being factors associated with working in an office with greater use of fresh air and natural light – and heating that delivers controlled temperatures to small zones. Products were specified with very low or no VOCs, to create a healthier environment.
Finally, a break-out area creates a heart within the office, complete with low lighting, booth-style seating and state-of-the-art high gloss kitchen fittings.
A survey after the refurbishment revealed exceptional levels of satisfaction among employees with a score of 95%.
The new office has been used as a location for a fact-finding visit by members of the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) looking at issues surrounding sustainable refurbishment. It has played host to a series of sustainable office seminars, allowing property professionals the opportunity to learn and see first hand how a refurbished ‘green’ office concept works.
About Morgan Lovell
Located in London, Birmingham and the Thames Valley, Morgan Lovell is the UK’s leading office interior design, fit out and refurbishment specialist. With its own teams of designers, surveyors and project managers, the company can design and deliver entire projects, with the benefit of just one point of contact. www.morganlovell.com
It is part of top five UK construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall plc which operates through five specialist divisions of fit out, construction, infrastructure services, affordable housing and urban regeneration.
Morgan Lovell is a licensed BREEAM Offices Assessment Organisation. This means it is now licensed to measure the sustainability score of an office in order to identify ways companies can reduce high energy usage and waste, whilst increasing comfort and satisfaction for users of the building.
Contacts
Press release written by Jane Shepherd, Shepherd PR Limited. Tel 01538 308685 or 308099. Mobile 07985 129315
jane@shepherd-pr.com
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A pilot project to create a ‘green’ workplace in the unlikely setting of a 1960s London office block has been named one of the most sustainable buildings in the UK.
Morgan Lovell’s pioneering development of a sustainable office of the future has taken the fit out title in the 2008 UK BREEAM Awards.
BREEAM (the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is a world-leading environmental assessment method for buildings.
As specialists in the design and build of offices, Morgan Lovell set about creating a green workplace at their headquarters – located in Noel Street, Soho – last year.
The company’s in-house team pooled their expertise and eventually achieved the highest BREEAM fit out environmental assessment score in the UK to date for the project, an ‘Excellent’ rating with a total mark of 76 per cent – awarded in March this year.
David Henderson, managing director of Morgan Lovell, said: “We wanted to challenge the common misconception that it is impossible or too hard to green an existing or older building.
“The refurbishment of our own office provided the ideal opportunity to tackle the issue and transform an older office into a model of sustainability.
“It was an ambitious project. The office exists across two floors of a 1960s, seven-storey, multi-tenanted office block – the type of building that would normally be considered an environmental write-off.
“Even the external experts felt that to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating in such an old building would be very difficult, if not impossible.
“Now, the completed project offers a blueprint to help reduce the significant carbon footprint currently pounding the UK from office buildings.
“Almost 50 per cent of the UK’s carbon emissions come from buildings and most companies are housed in ‘older’ environmentally unfriendly developments.
“We’ve found that UK businesses often hold the view that to reduce their carbon footprint they need to build a new office – a process considered as massively expensive and out of reach for most.
“16 Noel Street proves you can take an old building and make it ‘green’ without having the cost and upheaval of moving office or affecting the fabric of the building.”
With almost 100,000 buildings certified and over half a million registered, BREEAM sets the standard in sustainable design and is the most recognised measure of a building’s environmental performance.
A spokesman from BRE Global – the body behind BREEAM – said: “The winners of the BREEAM 2008 Awards truly represent the UK’s top examples of sustainable design.”
Find out more about green office interiors at http://www.morganlovell.com/sustainability
ENDS
Notes to Editors
About Morgan Lovell’s Green Office
Morgan Lovell was placed seventh for having the ‘greenest employees’ in the Sunday Times Green Companies List announced in May 2008 – the new office rated heavily in that success.
Features of the refit include recycled plastic bottles for kitchen surfaces and clay based paints to reduce solvent emissions.
To limit waste, furniture was reused – and products including flooring and furniture sourced as locally as possible with a high recycled content and themselves recyclable. Desks and computers not needed were given to charity.
Lighting, heating and cooling are zoned across the office floors. Sensors deploy lighting in zones only where people are working and lights adjust automatically to the natural conditions so less artificial light is needed. Heat rejected in areas being cooled is used to warm other parts of the building as required.
All of the energy demand is supplied from renewable energy sources, purchased from The Green Energy Company.
Other improvements include the well-being factors associated with working in an office with greater use of fresh air and natural light – and heating that delivers controlled temperatures to small zones. Products were specified with very low or no VOCs, to create a healthier environment.
Finally, a break-out area creates a heart within the office, complete with low lighting, booth-style seating and state-of-the-art high gloss kitchen fittings.
A survey after the refurbishment revealed exceptional levels of satisfaction among employees with a score of 95%.
The new office has been used as a location for a fact-finding visit by members of the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) looking at issues surrounding sustainable refurbishment. It has played host to a series of sustainable office seminars, allowing property professionals the opportunity to learn and see first hand how a refurbished ‘green’ office concept works.
About Morgan Lovell
Located in London, Birmingham and the Thames Valley, Morgan Lovell is the UK’s leading office interior design, fit out and refurbishment specialist. With its own teams of designers, surveyors and project managers, the company can design and deliver entire projects, with the benefit of just one point of contact. www.morganlovell.com
It is part of top five UK construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall plc which operates through five specialist divisions of fit out, construction, infrastructure services, affordable housing and urban regeneration.
Morgan Lovell is a licensed BREEAM Offices Assessment Organisation. This means it is now licensed to measure the sustainability score of an office in order to identify ways companies can reduce high energy usage and waste, whilst increasing comfort and satisfaction for users of the building.
Contacts
Press release written by Jane Shepherd, Shepherd PR Limited. Tel 01538 308685 or 308099. Mobile 07985 129315
jane@shepherd-pr.com
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Posted on June 21, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle
Sustainable Enterprises: Endorsed by Mother Earth
Akhil Shahani asked:
Social responsibility towards the environment is fast becoming part of the business psyche of our society. Starting with the big guns who call it “corporate responsibility” to smaller companies pursuing eco friendly processes, there is a new sensitivity in the way businesses are run. The small entrepreneur is not to be left behind either, with a number of sustainable enterprises taking birth in this era of environmental consciousness.
There is no arguing that having respect for our surroundings is the right thing to do; but did you know that it’s also the smarter option? In the long run, it will save precious resources and possibly prevent calamitous occurrences. No wonder, organizations are taking to it in a big way. As an entrepreneur, you could do your bit to support the cause, or even better, make a business out of several options of sustainable enterprises.
Seeking inspiration? Look no further, for we have a range of ideas on sustainable enterprises you could make your own!
Work with recycled paper: You could set an example conserving trees by starting an eco- friendly recycled paper business. You could include greeting cards, paper mache items such as wall hangs, Easter eggs, pencil holders and paper bags in your repertoire. Use your creativity to design them and package attractively; coupled with the go-green motto, you will see your sales soar. You could also run classes to teach people craft using recycled paper,
Let nature do the talking: Tourism is big all over. You will always find people who’d like to take a trip to the countryside; hills; forests or anyplace where nature is in full bloom. Zero in on your favorite tourist spot and start an adventure enterprise. Your initial capital commitment might be higher but so are the returns. Be different from the others in the business and adopt an eco-friendly approach; talk against littering, include only biodegradable items in your travel pack, inform them about nature’s wondrous ways….
G(r)O(w) organic: This could be a refreshing alternative to all the junk food that abounds. Turn the public’s health consciousness to your advantage by growing organic food. Even what you grow in your backyard could fetch you big profits. Market your business through pamphlets professing the pros of eating healthy.
Capture nature at her best: You could translate your interest in nature photography into a sustainable enterprise. Use the photographs to make calendars or just sell them as portraits. you will find valuable resources to help you step into the field.
Enter the realm of power: Solar energy is the next big thing! The world is fast running out of resources and governments everywhere are trying to get everybody under the sky to install solar panels in their homes. The scope is enormous and you could play your part anywhere in the industry, from manufacturing to marketing! Learn more about the potential of this field through “Survey of the Emerging Solar Energy Industry” by J.A. Bereny, F. de Winter.
Start a website: If technical stuff is your forte, you could design a website dealing with the environment. Make it interesting by offering online courses, other ideas on starting sustainable enterprises, eco-friendly products, books etc. There is a lot of money to be made in this business and a quick stop will tell you how to make some of it your own.
“Ethical Money: How to Invest in Sustainable Enterprises” by John Hancock, and “Sustainable Enterprise: Profiting from Best Practice “by Christopher Stephen Brown, are other good resources on the subject.
When it comes to sustainable enterprises you will never run out of options, even the lemonade you sold in grade three falls under this category. What’s more, they also offer you a chance to make a real difference to our planet!
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Social responsibility towards the environment is fast becoming part of the business psyche of our society. Starting with the big guns who call it “corporate responsibility” to smaller companies pursuing eco friendly processes, there is a new sensitivity in the way businesses are run. The small entrepreneur is not to be left behind either, with a number of sustainable enterprises taking birth in this era of environmental consciousness.
There is no arguing that having respect for our surroundings is the right thing to do; but did you know that it’s also the smarter option? In the long run, it will save precious resources and possibly prevent calamitous occurrences. No wonder, organizations are taking to it in a big way. As an entrepreneur, you could do your bit to support the cause, or even better, make a business out of several options of sustainable enterprises.
Seeking inspiration? Look no further, for we have a range of ideas on sustainable enterprises you could make your own!
Work with recycled paper: You could set an example conserving trees by starting an eco- friendly recycled paper business. You could include greeting cards, paper mache items such as wall hangs, Easter eggs, pencil holders and paper bags in your repertoire. Use your creativity to design them and package attractively; coupled with the go-green motto, you will see your sales soar. You could also run classes to teach people craft using recycled paper,
Let nature do the talking: Tourism is big all over. You will always find people who’d like to take a trip to the countryside; hills; forests or anyplace where nature is in full bloom. Zero in on your favorite tourist spot and start an adventure enterprise. Your initial capital commitment might be higher but so are the returns. Be different from the others in the business and adopt an eco-friendly approach; talk against littering, include only biodegradable items in your travel pack, inform them about nature’s wondrous ways….
G(r)O(w) organic: This could be a refreshing alternative to all the junk food that abounds. Turn the public’s health consciousness to your advantage by growing organic food. Even what you grow in your backyard could fetch you big profits. Market your business through pamphlets professing the pros of eating healthy.
Capture nature at her best: You could translate your interest in nature photography into a sustainable enterprise. Use the photographs to make calendars or just sell them as portraits. you will find valuable resources to help you step into the field.
Enter the realm of power: Solar energy is the next big thing! The world is fast running out of resources and governments everywhere are trying to get everybody under the sky to install solar panels in their homes. The scope is enormous and you could play your part anywhere in the industry, from manufacturing to marketing! Learn more about the potential of this field through “Survey of the Emerging Solar Energy Industry” by J.A. Bereny, F. de Winter.
Start a website: If technical stuff is your forte, you could design a website dealing with the environment. Make it interesting by offering online courses, other ideas on starting sustainable enterprises, eco-friendly products, books etc. There is a lot of money to be made in this business and a quick stop will tell you how to make some of it your own.
“Ethical Money: How to Invest in Sustainable Enterprises” by John Hancock, and “Sustainable Enterprise: Profiting from Best Practice “by Christopher Stephen Brown, are other good resources on the subject.
When it comes to sustainable enterprises you will never run out of options, even the lemonade you sold in grade three falls under this category. What’s more, they also offer you a chance to make a real difference to our planet!
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