Wed, 07/25/2012 - 13:16
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- With his engaging and inspiring new book, The 7 Lessons: Management Tools for Success (Paton Professional, 2012), Craig Cochran rewrites the entire management improvement genre. The 7 Lessons reads like a novel,…
Wed, 05/25/2011 - 12:13
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- With the economy still struggling, it’s increasingly clear that organizations need to get smarter with their resources or go out of business. Most modern businesses are required to comply with an astounding…
Tue, 01/25/2011 - 10:11
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- Compliance to ISO 9001 is vitally important for thousands of organizations around the world, and auditing to verify that compliance is imperative. Maintaining the knowledge and skills required to perform audits to…
Mon, 10/04/2010 - 13:28
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- Thousands of aerospace manufacturers and engineers around the world use AS9100 as a guide to making quality parts and a way to comply with governmental regulations, but the upcoming revision to the standard—…
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 11:00
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- If your organization is registered to ISO 9001 or any other management system standard, you’ve got an internal audit process. Are you making the most of it? Is it a value-adding exercise? William A. Stimson’s new…
Mon, 06/14/2010 - 08:28
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- If your organization is registered to ISO 9001 or any other management system standard, you’ve got an internal audit process. Are you making the most of it? Is it a value-adding exercise? William A. Stimson’s new…
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 15:44
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- That people and companies will have problems is a given: It’s the way that they face and respond to their problems that will dictate success or failure. This insight is a central tenet of Craig Cochran’s newest…
Mon, 05/17/2010 - 12:38
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- Few people with knowledge of business—small companies and large international organizations alike—would disagree that an organization is only as good as its top management team: its board of directors. When a…
Wed, 04/21/2010 - 15:10
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) — As anyone who’s read the news in the last two years or so knows, it’s a tough economy out there. The number of businesses doing more with less continues to rise, which means that process efficiency and resource…
Tue, 02/23/2010 - 13:14
(Paton Professional: Chico, CA) -- If you’ve ever wondered how to improve your organization’s processes—and its bottom line—this is the book for you. Fast-Action Solution Technique will explain exactly how to drill down into processes to improve…