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What Is a Flowchart? | The Ultimate Flowchart Tutorial & Guide

Flowcharts are an essential tool for breaking down complex processes into clear, visual steps. Whether you’re mapping out a business workflow, designing a system, or troubleshooting an issue, a well-structured flowchart helps bring clarity and efficiency.

IT & Operations Guides

What Is a Service Blueprint: Definition, Components, Steps, and Free Templates

Over the last few decades, service blueprints have evolved as a useful method to address the many challenges in service design and innovation. It was first introduced by Lynn Shostack, a banking executive in 1982 in the Harvard Business Review.

Production Manufacturing Guides

What is a Workflow? A Simple Guide with Editable Templates

Whether you are planning a project or your week, a workflow can help you organize and document the tasks you need to stay focused and keep track of them.

Meeting & Visual Collaboration Guides

What Is an Affinity Diagram + Free Templates

Drowning in sticky notes after a brainstorming session? Struggling to make sense of scattered ideas or conflicting feedback? That’s where an affinity diagram comes in. Also known as an affinity map or the K-J method, this simple yet powerful visual tool helps you group related ideas, uncover patterns, and bring structure to messy information. In this guide, you’ll learn what an affinity diagram is, how to create one from scratch, and when to use an affinity diagram to improve collaboration and decision-making. We’ll also walk you through real-world affinity diagram examples, share expert tips, and give you access to free templates so you can start organizing your thoughts more strategically.

bpm guides

What is Process Documentation | The Easy Guide with Templates

As your business grows, so does its complexity. There are more steps, more people, and more things involved that may not always be arranged in the most efficient way.

Project Management Guides

Why Team Communication is The Key to Team Success

Getting together to get things done relies on a team’s ability to communicate their goals, express challenges along the way, explore solutions, and decide on the best path forward.

HR Planning Guides

7 Step Recruitment Process for the Hybrid Age

Increasing candidate flow and conversion rate has become a common challenge in many organizations. To attract the right talent at the right time, you need to have an efficient recruitment process in place.

Brainstorming Guides

10 Effective Ideation Techniques for All Teams

Every organization needs a steady supply of fresh creative ideas to stay relevant and ahead of their competitors successfully. As necessary as it is, generating good new ideas isn’t as easy as getting everyone in the team into a room and spending 3 hours to come up with barely anything.

Software Teams Guides

5 Phases of website designing Process

Imagine having a website that portrays your brand perfectly, drives traffic and turns the audience into loyal customers. Your company website is a key gateway to reach potential customers. How do you build a perfect website? The answer lies in understanding the phases of website designing and implementing the best practices that make your online presence truly exceptional.

Production Manufacturing Guides

7 Basic Tools of Quality for Process Improvement

Japan is known worldwide for its quality products and services. One of the many reasons for this is its excellent quality management. How did it become so? Japan has Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa to thank for that.

Education Guides

7 Essential Visual Tools for Social Work Assessment

There are many social work assessment tools that help social workers with examining their clients and their situation. In this post, we will be looking at several visual tools that help understand the clients’ relationships and situation in-depth.

HR Planning Guides

A Step By Step Guide to Set KPIs for Team Members

An organization without key performance indicators (KPIs) is like a journey without a map. When your journey doesn’t have a map, there is no way for you to determine how far you have come since you started. You keep on driving towards a destination without any knowledge of what is in your way. In an organization, having clear KPIs that are linked to your company’s ultimate goals help derive the progress you have made within a set time frame. It helps understand the contributions of team members and what needs to improve.