Open Educational Resources | Pao Yue-kong Library, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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How Small Business Can Benefit from "Village Banking"

Small businesses in the US are failing at an alarming rate. Nearly half close their doors by year 5, and 70% fail by year 10. The main reason? They run out of money. Compare that to small businesses in Ecuador and Guatemala that have a nearly 100% loan repayment rate with 85% of borrowers going on to expand their business. What's the secret to their success? Business strategist Ruchi Shah shares a community-based solution that every small business can learn from.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Small business Industrial management
Resource Type:: Video

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Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D. - The power of peripheral vision in strategic thinking

Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D!

Learn BETTER. Learn FASTER. Learn MORE than you are used to.

To learn more about the idea of the “ecosystem” that we built around the FOCUSED philosophy and its accompanying 7 colourful dice framework, please visit the FOCUSED homepage.

Most problems, issues, and challenges remain unsolved because we end up resorting to our past habitual attempts without being mindful of new ways of thinking and new ways of doing. This video will showcase an innovative new strategic thinking framework that is designed to make you think more deeply and peripherally about your organization's unsolved problems, and in the process, open up alternatives not contemplated before.

This video illustrates the F.O.C.U.S.E.D. Dice framework, to help open your thinking about complex issues. Each letter represents different key behaviors:

"F" - Bring Fresh Perspective

"O" - Think, feel and act like an Owner/ Manager

"C" - Show Connected-thinking

"U" - Have a Sense of Urgency

"S" - Show Team SPIRIT

"E" - Always Engage

"D" - Exercise Deliberate Practice

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Problem solving Dice games
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Organisational Structure and Business Process Management

In this lecture, we further study business process management in particular about how organizational structure or different types of organizational structure can support business process management.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Video

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Process based organizations

This lecture covers the topic of process-based organizations

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Video

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Why BPM is so IMPORTANT for Organizations?

To have a better understanding on the importance of BPM by watching a video about graduates of Industrial Systems Engineering at PolyU and the good work by Professor Devonport Tom Davenport.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Video

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What’s in the name “BPM”

It covers the diversity on BPM and its derivative

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Video

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The Reality of Processes

An animation which illustrates from a real story. 3 students went to a very large IT company in Shanghai for summer placement and they found how difficult it was to capture or rediscover the business process in reality.