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To improve anything one must first understand what need to be improved. In improving all aspects of your company the first thing that must be done is an audit of accounts receivables, accounts payables, cash, profit margin, human resources, and quality. Since these are the core functions of any business a thorough knowledge of these is critical to improving the company.

When this information is gathered from the audit an analysis need to be performed on each area and strategies need to be developed that will guide the transformation process. Many of the core areas are involved with finance and therefore undergirdes all attempts to performance improvement. Once these analysis have been done the next step will be the development of a transformation plan with strategies for each core activity of the business entity. This will ensure that each core area an its corresponding support function is addressed.

In the audit and in the transformation plan the questions of who, what, when, where, how, and why must be asked and answered. Answering these questions will yield critical information that will help in developing the implementation plan after all the strategies have been developed. These questions will lead the company to do a situational audit so that it may determine its postion in the market in which it competes in relationship to those companies that make up the market. Such a competitive analysis will provide greater insight into what needs to be improved in order to enhance the company's competitive position in the market.

Improving all aspects of your company will hopefully make the company more competitive and maybe an industry leader. Any company that will take the time to do market research will understand why it is necessary to perform an overhaul of all aspects of the company. Since the company competes in a global marketplace and the economy is in constant change it becomes necessary for the company to keep up with that change which therefore makes improving all aspects of your company critical.

The simplest way to go at change is to develop a systems view of the company. Every company has several systems at work at all times. When these systems all work in synchronization then the company will function smoothly. These systems; materials, people, finance, benefits, and education must all be of high quality and high functionality in-order to maintain constant improvement in performance. By looking at the systems and core functions of your company on a periodic basis you can maintain an ongoing quality improvement program that will ensure continued improvement on into the future.

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