Best Practices - What You Need To Know

Companies and organizations can be grouped into three basic categories:

· Innovators – those who are literally at the leading edge of process development; often have failures associated with risk taking, but the "wins" are big enough to offset these.

· Best Practice seekers – those who work to achieve high performance with minimum risk; by adopting practices and methods already demonstrated to work well, typically in another company and/or industry.

· Strivers – below average performing companies that are working to "keep up with the pack."

Where is your company? Unless you are an innovator, operating at the leading edge in a number of areas, your company is vulnerable to someone else who is or becomes one.

A given company may be to some degree, in all three categories. To create an example, a company could be highly innovative in its go-to-market strategy and execution. At the same time, in its R&D and product development area, it could be utilizing known, proven best practices. In its manufacturing area, for a variety of reasons, this area could be characterized as a "striver" with significant areas that are well below known best practices.

Competition is increasingly global as most company leaders are all to aware. Consequently, those with foresight seek to achieve quantum improvements in their company’s performance.

The most powerful way is to seek out Best Practices and adopt them as quickly as possible. Those who follow this path often have been able to achieve substantial performance improvements.

Definitions: the best way to perform a given process; the best way thus far that has been developed to do something; the way that results in the highest demonstrated, measurable performance.

We urge you to bookmark the PROACTION web site and return regularly, or better still, subscribe to our RSS feed. Valuable information available either at no cost in the Free White Paper section or our web site, or at very moderate cost in the PROACTION Best Practices e-Store is continually being expanded and updated. The next update could contain an item that proved very valuable for you and your team. Quick links:

· Free White Papers

· PROACTION Best Practice e-Store

PROACTION provides comprehensive assistance to bring proven Best Practices into use in a wide variety of areas. The Path to Best Practices is part process, part content. Simply knowing what a best practice is for a given area is just a starting point, of course. It must be implemented correctly to gain the expected operational and financial results.

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PROACTION - Mission & Overview

Ever wonder how it is that some companies consistently outperform their competitors year after year, decade after decade – regardless of almost anything that happens?

These are Best Practice companies – their “Secret” is that they think, be, do, and act differently.

PROACTION’s mission is to provide support that enables our clients to move steadily and powerfully toward true Best Practices – sustained high performance over time. Best Practice companies are strong, highly capable in 4 Essential Factors:

1. Effective Enterprise Systems & Processes
2. Continuous Improvement Processes
3. Education and Training
4. Effective Leadership & Culture

We provide specific assistance to enhance your capabilities in all four Essential Factors.

Our objective is to be a “portal” – a single-source point where you can learn about Best Practices, find suitable materials for your efforts and projects, and engage senior level expertise in specific areas to support and enable your team to grow, become more successful, and power your Best Practice / high performance growth.

PROACTION provides a full range of services and resources in support of Best Practices, including:

Free Best Practice White Papers and articles – learn about leading edge, yet proven methods in a variety of areas.

Featured Best Practices – Sales Management – almost everyone will benefit from improved sales performance – learn how here.

Free Newsletters – subscribe to our free Best Practice newsletter – twice a month; solid information, insight, wisdom – minimum Inbox clutter. Also, review the Newsletter Archive.

Best Practice Publications & Courses – browse our e-store for high value, low cost books, booklets, presentations and other materials – use to educate, train your team.

Best Practice Services – Our professional services and projects are geared around the coaching and facilitation model. The core Best Practice is that of process ownership by those who actually DO the work. All of our services support ownership by your team members.