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Examples of active in the following topics:

• Avoiding Passive Voice

  • A way to focus your sentences on action and actors is to use the active voice rather than the passive voice.
  • Research shows that readers comprehend active sentences more rapidly than passive ones.
  • The active voice also eliminates the vagueness and ambiguity that often characterize the passive voice.
  • The active voice keeps the focus of the sentence on the action.
  • A memo written in the active voice will have a greater impact than one written in the passive voice.

• The wasteful practices inherent in businesses

  • According to the Cardiff Business School, only 5% of most business production operations are comprised of activities that directly relate to what customers want in a product or service.
  • ') This means that up to 95% of the activities in most businesses add no customer value at all.
  • The first, necessary, but non-value adding activities, constitutes as much as 35% of most organizational work and is comprised of actions that do not directly contribute to what customers want in a product (e.g. payroll, behind-the-scenes cleaning, the fulfilment of government regulations, and so on).
  • The second category, non-value adding activities, can comprise up to 60% of work activities, yet these activities add no value to customers in any way, shape or form (e.g. production line snags, waiting periods, unnecessary paperwork, end-of-line quality inspections, etc.).

• Alternate Sources of Funds

  • Operating activities include the production, sales, and delivery of the company's product, as well as collecting payment from its customers.
  • Operating activities that generate cash flows are:
  • Cash inflows from investing activities involve cash flows associated with non-current assets:
  • Financing activities include the inflow of cash from investors, such as banks and shareholders.
  • Other activities which impact long-term liabilities and equity of the company are also listed under financing activities, such as:

• Activities in the Human Resources Department

  • Human resource departments are responsible for a wide variety of activities across a number of core organizational functions
  • A brief review of the core functions of human resource departments will be useful in framing the more common activities a human resource professional will conduct.
  • This includes the activities of hiring new full-time or part-time employees, hiring contractors, and terminating employee contracts

• Departmentalization Cons

  • Departmentalization refers to the process of grouping activities into departments .
  • Functional departmentalization - This involves grouping activities by functions performed.
  • Product departmentalization - This involves grouping activities by product line.
  • Geographic departmentalization - This involves grouping activities on the basis of territory.
  • Process departmentalization - This involves grouping activities on the basis of product or service or customer flow.

• Departmentalization Pros

  • Departmentalization refers to the grouping of process or purpose activities into departments.
  • Departmentalization refers to the process of grouping task activities into departments.
  • Employees with similar training, education, skills, or equipment work together and under a supervisor responsible for that department's activities.
  • Because one supervisor typically oversees a major area of activity, functional departmentalization also facilitates coordination.
  • For instance, in a larger retail operation, one marketing department supervisor would control and coordinate the work of buyers, merchandizers, and the sales force so that information and activities of each function would be more efficient and productive.

• Starting the journey

  • A value map is much like a process map with one distinct difference: a value map starts from the customer end and makes a clear distinction between value-added activities (transformational activities for which the customer is willing to pay) and non-value-added activities (activities that add cost without adding customer value).
  • As flow is introduced, let customers pull value from the next upstream activity.
  • While wasteful activities are being reduced or eliminated, shift the business's efforts toward letting the customer determine production quantities.

• Task Forces

  • A task force (TF) is a unit or formation established to work on a single defined task or activity.
  • An organization may outsource its IT activities to several different organizations.
  • A task force (TF) is a unit or formation established to work on a single defined task or activity .
  • Many non-military organizations now create "task forces" or task groups for temporary activities that might have once been performed by ad hoc committees.
  • An organization, for example, may outsource its IT activities to several different organizations.

• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)

  • Factors that matter include lower costs–shared activities, shared resources, economies of scale or scope-, and increased willingness to pay.
  • Diversify if (cost of having units A & B in same firm) < (cost of unit A in firm A) + (cost of unit B in firm B) - Boost in Willingness To Pay (aka, cross-selling) - Diversify if (WTP of activities A & B if done in same firm) > (WTP of activity A in firm A) + (WTP activity B in firm B)

• Supply Chain Management

  • Another definition is provided by the APICS Dictionary, when it defines SCM as the "design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally. "
  • Trade-offs in logistical activities: The above activities must be well coordinated in order to achieve the lowest total logistics cost.
  • Trade-offs may increase the total cost if only one of the activities is optimized.
  • It is, therefore, imperative to take a systems approach when planning logistical activities.