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  • Mar 15, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    How to convert a Word SOP into a live workflow

    Your Word SOPs are gathering dust. AIIM research shows 61% of document processes are still static. Here is how to convert static documents into trackable workflows using AI extraction, without re-typing a single step.

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  • Mar 15, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Only one person knows how to do that

    If only one person knows how a process works, your business faces serious key person risk. IDC research shows knowledge silos cost roughly $100,000 per 100 employees per year in lost productivity alone, and about 42% of what a departing expert knows cannot be replicated by remaining staff.

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  • Mar 15, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Process mining vs process management compared

    Gartner pegs the process mining market at $1.1 billion, yet most teams buy mining tools before they have processes worth mining. Here is when you need process mining versus process management and why the order matters.

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  • Mar 15, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Why nobody follows your SOPs

    McKinsey found knowledge workers spend 20% of their week searching for information. You wrote the SOP and shared it on the drive, but nobody follows it because static documents cannot enforce anything.

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  • Jan 1, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    24 continuous improvement quotes that challenge your comfort zone

    Continuous improvement sounds nice until you try to do it every day. These 24 quotes from Masaaki Imai, W. Edwards Deming, and other operational leaders reveal what sustained improvement actually takes.

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  • Jan 1, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    22 operational excellence quotes from leaders who actually ran operations

    Generic leadership quotes do not fix broken operations. These 22 operational excellence quotes from W. Edwards Deming, Taiichi Ohno, Masaaki Imai, and five other leaders come from people who ran real operations. Deming showed that 85% of quality problems trace to the system, not the person.

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  • Jan 1, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    25 process improvement quotes that changed how I think about operations

    W. Edwards Deming proved that 85 percent of failures come from broken systems, not people. These 25 process improvement quotes from Deming, Drucker, Goldratt and others shaped how we built Tallyfy.

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  • Jan 1, 2026 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    25 systems quotes that change how you see problems

    W. Edwards Deming proved 85% of failures trace to the system, not the people. These 25 systems thinking quotes from Deming, Nassim Taleb, Peter Senge, and Donella Meadows reveal patterns others miss.

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  • Aug 4, 2019 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    How to fix your inventory process before it breaks you

    Inventory distortion costs the global retail industry $1.73 trillion per year according to IHL Group research. Inventory process management helps you map, fix, and automate workflows to cut losses and prevent stockouts.

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  • Mar 6, 2019 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Lean process improvement tools that work

    Lean tools from Taiichi Ohno at Toyota cut labor hours in half according to MIT research. Learn how value stream mapping, Kanban, A3, PDCA and Gemba walks eliminate process waste.

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  • Feb 14, 2019 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    How to use Pareto chart analysis with examples

    Pareto chart analysis helps you find the 20 percent of causes driving 80 percent of your problems. Joseph Juran turned Vilfredo Pareto's 1906 observation into a practical quality tool used in Six Sigma today.

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  • Nov 14, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Three types of business processes explained

    Michael Porter defined three types of business processes in his 1985 value chain framework: core processes generate income directly, support processes keep operations running, and management processes steer everything. The type tells you where to improve first.

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  • Aug 26, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Process improvement methodologies that work

    Between 50 and 70 percent of process improvement initiatives fail because teams pick the wrong method. This guide covers Six Sigma, pioneered by Bill Smith at Motorola, alongside Lean and BPM with tools you can use right now.

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  • Jun 1, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    How to create a process flowchart with examples

    A process flowchart, first developed by Frank Gilbreth in 1921, diagrams each step and decision point in a business process. This guide covers four practical use cases, three creation methods from pen and paper to BPM software, and real examples from employee onboarding, document approval, and incident response.

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  • May 30, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    End to end process explained with real examples

    An end to end process captures every step and handoff from trigger to final outcome. McKinsey found only 21% of organizations redesign workflows end to end before deploying technology. Organizations that do are twice as likely to see significant financial returns. Most teams underestimate how far their processes really stretch.

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  • May 16, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    How to write an SOP that people will follow

    Most SOPs gather dust because they are boring walls of text. One services company using Tallyfy went from 65 employees to 15 after SOPs revealed massive task duplication across four execution levels.

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  • May 9, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Why process owners make or break your operations

    Process owners hold end-to-end accountability for how work flows. APQC research shows 82 percent of organizations appoint process owners, yet without one, improvement efforts drift and AI automation has no solid workflow to follow.

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  • Apr 30, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Deming's 14 points still matter for quality

    W. Edwards Deming published his 14 points in 1982 as a philosophy for quality management that most organizations still get wrong despite decades of evidence.

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  • Apr 29, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Kaizen means small daily improvements that stick

    Kaizen is a Japanese methodology, popularized by Masaaki Imai, for continuous improvement through small, consistent changes rather than dramatic overhauls. The Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and structured Kaizen events make improvements stick when paired with genuine engagement across the entire organization.

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  • Apr 24, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Root cause analysis stops you from fixing symptoms forever

    Root cause analysis, using methods from Kaoru Ishikawa and Sakichi Toyoda, digs past surface symptoms to find the one process failure behind multiple problems. One hospital traced 17 failure points back to a single process gap.

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  • Apr 24, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Gemba walks and why they still beat dashboards

    Gemba walks send managers to where work happens instead of relying on reports. Taiichi Ohno built this practice at Toyota because direct observation reveals process problems no dashboard ever will.

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  • Mar 26, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Business process transformation that works

    Business process transformation means replacing broken manual workflows with technology. Learn the three tools that matter and why Ford cut staff by 75 percent.

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  • Mar 25, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    Practical ideas for business process improvement

    Eight practical business process improvement ideas covering software adoption, Lean thinking from Taiichi Ohno, 5 Whys root cause analysis, and the Ishikawa fishbone diagram. Practical techniques from process mapping to standardization that operations teams can apply immediately to reduce waste and bottlenecks.

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  • Mar 20, 2018 · Amit Kothari · Process Improvement

    How the 8D method solves problems permanently

    Ford Motor Company developed the eight disciplines (8D) method to solve product and process problems by identifying root causes across nine steps and preventing recurrence.

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