by Philip Paul Beyer | Apr 22, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
It’s not often you find a client like our “Fred,” now the owner of a truly organized business!” Fred has not only become a tenacious proponent of systemizing a business, but now carries that message to his business-owner friends and colleagues in his...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Apr 21, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
This was prompted by experience that showed me, TRUTH in business can be fleeting, to say the least! After reading this one, you might also want to read an earlier blog titled, “Business Owners Are Big Fat Liars!” So, take the entertainment industry,...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Apr 16, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
Ratio Reports and studies for the printing industry are a very tedious process, but a very important exercise, especially for print shop owners and managers. For the past few days, I’ve been working with my son Paul on our annual Ratio Reports and studies for...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Apr 7, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
Recently, I heard someone touting a certain Customer Complaint System for businesses. Yes, he claimed it would “resolve all those many complaint issues in an expedited manner.” Sounds reasonable!? But, how much more valuable would it be to you, if you RARELY had a...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Mar 24, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
In the classic tale “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, our hero, Alice chases a rabbit down a rabbit hole. She is soon puzzled by all the wonders she encounters there. Things get “curiouser and curiouser.” Then, at a fork in the road, seeking...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Mar 5, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
Is your business afflicted with The Magoo Syndrome?” Driving my three grown sons to lunch the other day, I looked in my rear view mirror, only to see two sets of eyes fairly bulging out of my younger sons’ heads in the backseat! “DAD!! Watch where...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Mar 4, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
“Unstructured knowledge is the challenge of our time!” So said an article by Ricoh Americas Corp. I can’t help but agree! I have been shouting this from the roof-top for some time now. As a result, I wrote a book and numerous articles about how to SOLVE...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Feb 10, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
Business Success eludes many who seek to own a company, until they realize the need for quality control systems. Then, as Superman might say, “the sky’s the limit!” When opening the doors of my business in June 1988, I had no clue as to what to...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Feb 10, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
Service matters, maybe more than high-quality products! Speaking of service matters, here’s a true story… The large, shiny green fly lay flat on its back, eyes bulging and lifeless among the other greens on my wife’s salad plate. Its tiny black legs...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Jan 27, 2014 | The Organizer Blog
Success in business equates to more income, customers, employees, and opportunities; however, it’s also true that business growth breeds disorder! As a business grows, so do it’s considerations, overhead, problems; thus a need for control systems to keep...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Dec 11, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
“Never judge a system by system ABUSE!” he said. That last word, particularly, rang in my ears as the talk radio host spoke about some recent, unreasoning criticisms and outright attacks on long-standing and workable systems that have proved themselves to have great...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Nov 25, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
Phillip Crosby, a quality consultant defined quality as “being in conformance to our customer’s requirements, which is accomplished by doing things right the first time.” As a “Quality” preacher/evangelist for over 25 years, I am adding...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Nov 11, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
“You’re not going to see a Grande White Mocha with an extra shot of espresso, spill out of a CUP OF TEA,” my friend Rob said yesterday. “What comes out of your cup when it’s tipped over is what was IN your cup in the first place! In other...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Nov 8, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
Employee changes can be a pain! When experienced employees leave for “greener pastures,” or any other reason, that expertise can walk out the door with them. That is, unless you’ve implemented good control systems! One afternoon, as I walked through...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Oct 28, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
There’s a philosophy to follow when implementing and understanding business systems. “Don’t let things you DON’T know, confuse the things you DO know!” You may have heard this before? But where you really listening? Hearing that statement...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Sep 30, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
Listening to a radio host, recently, reminded me of The Law of Entropy that had nearly taken my business down years ago. Fact is, in the early 1990’s we knew very little about business systems. However, we knew a lot about the frustration and pain caused by business...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Aug 12, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
Are you ready for new business practices and quality control systems to grow your business? Or will you continue with business as usual, that has brought chaos and frustration? A story has long been told, in the writings of a wise, first century physician named Luke....
by Philip Paul Beyer | Jul 29, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
Sitting in a motivational seminar, you get many great ideas from speakers on growing your business… how you can do that! Then you can hardly wait to get back to the office to start implementing “that.” Then you meet a constituent in the hallway,...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Jul 15, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
Some businesses and employees take to quality control systems implementation like ducks take to water; however, then there are those business exceptions! The new general manager of a certain company that was experiencing problems, invited me to pay a visit. My...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Jun 24, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
If asked to write down what each person under your management does each day or, let’s say, what they’re supposed to be doing… Could you, do it? Do you have a daily routine checklist for every key employee? You think so? Okay, could you write down HOW...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Jun 4, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
Hype and slick promotions, without the ability to deliver on advertised promises, is not a winning business strategy! Only the application of service & quality assurance systems allows a business to consistently meet its customers’ highest expectations!...
by Philip Paul Beyer | May 20, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
You want to know where to start systematizing? Okay, so what’s the biggest hole in your ‘boat’? Listening to a talk radio program recently, I was taken by a young man who was going through a difficult time in his life. He had called the radio host to...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Apr 22, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
There’s a predictable reason for employee turnover in a company, and it’s not what you think! Just when you feel you have all your key positions filled with the right people, someone walks out the door, leaving you high and dry! What is it with Employee...
by Philip Paul Beyer | Apr 22, 2013 | The Organizer Blog
It’s good to encourage employees, especially when things are not going so well in the economy and your business! Genuine encouragement, not just off-handed “At-a boys,” tends to bring out the best in them, and enhances productivity. It’s also...
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