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Monthly Archive for August, 2011

Creating Organization Charts in Visio – Part 4

Posted in Org Charts in Visio on Aug 31st, 2011

This represents the final post in this series. Parts 1 to 3 would make useful reading if you are reading this topic for the first time. Here are the links. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Changing Spacing In addition to selecting the theme you want it is also possible to change the spacing relationships [...]

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Creating Organization Charts in Visio – Part 3

Posted in Org Charts in Visio on Aug 30th, 2011

This post is a continuation of Creating Organization charts in Visio – Part 2. Once you have completed the chart Wizard Visio will place the org chart on either single or multiple pages. The layout may not be pretty to begin with, as in the example below. Do not despair, there is help at hand, and [...]

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Creating Organization charts in Visio – Part 2

Posted in Org Charts in Visio on Aug 29th, 2011

This post is a continuation of Creating Organization charts in Visio – Part 1. At the end of part one we had created our spreadsheet populated with our Org Chart data, with the Organization Chart Wizard open  step through each stage, selecting the appropriate options. In addition to showing what will be presented in the chart, the [...]

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Creating Organization charts in Visio – Part 1

Posted in Org Charts in Visio on Aug 25th, 2011

Creating org charts can be a challenge, and it doesn’t take long before products like PowerPoint run out of steam when building and maintaining organizational charts. However, with a little preparation, charts can be created with Visio 2010 that are good looking, easy to maintain and can even be updated in Excel. Starting out We [...]

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Additional Dates Added for the Simplified Process Mapping Webinar

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 23rd, 2011

Dozens of people attended the Simplified Process Mapping webcasts we conducted in early August so Harvard Computing Group is planning two additional presentations in the next several weeks. These one-hour seminars describe the challenges associated with capturing process knowledge and producing good process maps. You will learn about a simple, yet effective technique for understanding [...]

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BPM Blog summary week ending 19th August 2011

Posted in Process Discovery, Process Mapping on Aug 22nd, 2011

  Top 10 Best New Features in Visio 2010: FREE Webinar Posted in Process Mapping, Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2011 Register here Presenter: Scott A. Helmers Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US Pacific Daylight Time PDT About the webinar Creating attractive, meaningful diagrams is easier in Visio 2010 than in any [...]

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Top 10 Best New Features in Visio 2010: FREE Webinar

Posted in Process Mapping, Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2011

Register here Presenter: Scott A. Helmers Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US Pacific Daylight Time PDT About the webinar Creating attractive, meaningful diagrams is easier in Visio 2010 than in any previous release. In this webcast, you will see live demonstrations of the top 10 new features in Visio 2010 and [...]

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Organization and Document naming relationships- Part 2 of 2

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 18th, 2011

Naming your document collection guidelines Once you have gathered the relevant documents to a single location, or have created an index so everyone knows where they are, spend some time reviewing the naming conventions in use. Over many years of setting up new process centric document collections, our best practices for naming include: Be consistent. [...]

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Organization and Document naming relationships–Part 1 of 2

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 17th, 2011

In recent years I have come to use some pretty fantastic online library systems. This brought to thinking about the extremely complex science of indexing libraries of information.  If you have had the chance to use an online library system for research purposes, it is truly amazing how much useful information you can find that [...]

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Customizing the Presentation of Published TaskMaps

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 16th, 2011

The most popular way that our customers have found to distribute their TaskMaps widespread across their organization is to publish them as a website. There really is no simpler form of distribution in the Internet age than the website; these days everyone has access to a browser, most people even have access to a browser [...]

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BPM Blog summary for week ending 12 August 2011

Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Process Mapping, Project Management on Aug 15th, 2011

Last week’s blog had a number of interesting topics, from web publishing with Office 2010 to the use of SWOT analysis techniques in your BPM project. Hope you had a great weekend. Mike Cunningham Using the SWOT technique in your BPM project Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 12th, 2011 To [...]

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Using the SWOT technique in your BPM project

Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 12th, 2011

To use the SWOT technique in your BPM project use the following guidelines when building the matrix or table: Strengths: characteristics of the BPM project that give it an advantage over other potential projects competing for the same budget or staff resources. This might be a ROI analysis or support of important goals and objectives [...]

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SWOT Analysis for your BPM project

Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 11th, 2011

Yesterday evening I was running a Goals Setting workshop and I included a SWOT Analysis into the training program. This worked so well for the workshop, I thought it would be a good idea to add into planning for BPM projects. Just a refresher and reminder what a SWOT analysis is: Here is the definition [...]

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Using bookmarks and hyperlinks in MS Word 2010 with TaskMap

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 10th, 2011

The ability to set a hyperlink pointer to individual bookmarks in Office 2010 is no longer supported with native Office 2010 MS Word files; these are ones with the doc or docx. extensions. If you want to create hyperlinks to individual bookmarks using the TaskMap hyperlinking function, then follow these instructions. Click the images for [...]

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PowerPoint Publishing to the Web with TaskMap and Office 2010

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 9th, 2011

The ability to set a hyperlink pointer to individual slides in Office 2010 is no longer supported with native Office 2010 PowerPoint files; these are ones with the pptx. extension.  If you want to create hyperlinks to individual slides using the TaskMap hyperlinking function, then follow these instructions. 1. Open file in PowerPoint 2. Select Save [...]

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Leadership when the chips are down: The Blame Game

Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2011

We all recognize leadership in projects, businesses and organizations. Today, in the United States we are looking hard to find it in our politicians. Now this is not a political column, but there are times when we look around us and just despair at the lack of leadership. The summer of 2011 will go down [...]

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Naming conventions for your BPM Project

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 5th, 2011

When you are ready to start up your process mapping project spend some time agreeing on the standards that everyone will use to create and publish the maps. This will save anguish later, as you try and bring order to a growing collection of process maps. Naming conventions Use a logical name for the process [...]

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BPM Summary of posts 1-3rd August 2011

Posted in Process Mapping, Project Management on Aug 4th, 2011

  Grab your process partner by the hand … Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 3rd, 2011 A customer yesterday likened their first experiences with TaskMap and process mapping to that of a dance partner. What a great analogy for process based projects in general. When we embark on a new project we have tools, [...]

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Grab your process partner by the hand …

Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 3rd, 2011

A customer yesterday likened their first experiences with TaskMap and process mapping to that of a dance partner. What a great analogy for process based projects in general. When we embark on a new project we have tools, people, technology, the way work gets done; the processes. To the point this consultant was making, TaskMap [...]

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Just in time

Posted in Project Management on Aug 2nd, 2011

Sometimes the solution you are searching for happens right at the last moment. Whether you view this as providence, karma or God giving you a helping hand, it is astonishing how troubling just  “waiting” for that moment can be. However, sometimes the wait causes us to re-evaluate how we are dealing with the problem. The [...]

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