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Business Management Principles

April 17th, 2010



In order for a business to be successful it is essential that it must have a management system capable of ensuring the business can achieve its goals and objectives. The ISO 9000 series of standards relate to Quality Management Systems however as businesses will tend to have one system, formalizing the system to focus solely on quality will have no real benefits to your business. Therefore, it will be necessary to move away from a system focusing wholly on quality, to a system that focuses on all the characteristics of your business.

The main reason your business is in existence is to highlight the requirements and expectations of your customers and other persons concerned (employees, suppliers etc) to accomplish an advantage over you competitors. In addition to this, another objective must be to gain, sustain and develop your businesses performance and resources.

As a means to achieve improvements within your business you should ensure that your business employs the key principles that are fundamental to ISO 9001:2000, these are:

- Customer Focus;

- Involvement of People;

- Leadership;

- Process Approach;

- Factual Approach;

- System Approach;

- Continual Improvements;

- Mutually Beneficial Supplier Relationships.

Following the principles highlighted above ensures that your business focuses on what your customer actually requires and not what they think they require. In order for your business to move forward successfully it is essential that you run it in a methodical and well thought out manner that is highly perceptible. To achieve success from your business you must ensure that your business adopts a business management system which will ensure that continual improvement is constantly being driven by the management system. If your business is to develop and have a business management system that will allow growth and sustainability, you will have to ensure that you build a management system that is focused on your customers. To achieve this objective your business management system must contain systems and processes that are easily understood by the individuals within your business. It is also crucial that these systems can be managed easily and improvements made if they are necessary without any detrimental affect on the day to day operation of your business. The processes within your management system must be capable of being measured to ensure they are performing as required. It does also mean that when setting these key performance indicators, intelligent thought is given to the areas that you are measuring. It is worth remembering that individuals are likely to improve in areas in which they are being measured. Therefore it is critical that any process measuring is carried out in areas that will benefit the system and your business as a whole.

By: Mark Inglis

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Environmental Resource Management

February 7th, 2010

Environmental resource management is the most important major a young person can have today because it is essential to handle the growing population, growing demand, and the new options of an ever-changing world. One reason that resource management is important is because it will manage the increasing population of the world. As the world’s population continues to increase, adding as many as one and a half billion people in the next twenty years, the global environment will continue to become more strained. The resources such as water and land will become more scarce, and they need to be used in the most efficient way possible to achieve maximum benefit. The world needs an efficient method to handle the power needs of large populations, especially as there is a global shift in energy usage that has its focus away from fossil fuels. It will be increasingly important in the near future to discover a way to efficiently power global commerce while having minimal effect on the environment.

Resource management will also be important to handle the rising demand of the world’s population. As the population grows, more resources will be needed to supply the needs of each person and forward the economy. The idea of consumerism that has been prevalent in America since the 1950′s has spread across the world, and has caused a greater demand for goods and products. In order to meet the needs of the economy, it is essential to be able to handle the resources needed and be able to distribute them efficiently.

Environmental resource management is also important because it will greatly assist in handling the new options that will be available in the future. As technology improves, there will be more efficient methods to distribute and harness the earth’s resources, as well as possibly using the resources of something outside the planet. A resource manager needs to be able to adapt to the new changes and be able to decide which resources to use and how to use them. Discovering new resources and new ways to handle resources is essential to handling the rapid growth of a changing world.

Handling new options, growing demand, and growing population are all reasons that environmental resource management is the major and career best suited for handling problems now and in the future. Although the future of the world is uncertain, it is important to be able to adapt to the changes that will inevitably occur. The world’s resources are limited, and it will become increasingly important to handle them correctly.

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