Process reengineering was a massive trend in the 1990s. By focusing on improving either cost, quality, or service, a company could gain benefits in all three categories. Today, the principles that underpin process reengineering can be applied anew, with safety as a core category to improve that will carry benefits across multiple other dimensions.
At a time when companies are severely challenged, considering a safety reengineering effort may help create valuable new innovations, and revenue streams.
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Republicans divided over fixes for small business Paycheck Protection Program - CNNPolitics
(CNN) Senate Republicans are divided over how to move forward with legislation to fix the Paycheck Protection Program likely delaying the process and requiring the Senate to have to hold a roll call vote on the House-passed bill that would give business owners more time and flexibility to use funding they received.
Asheville business owners reset after George Floyd protests
ASHEVILLE - June 2 was supposed to be The Lobster Trap's first night of business after state-mandated COVID-19 closures, but Mike McCarty would have to first remove the graffiti.
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"What people are protesting for, it's beyond important, and it's bigger than us trying to reopen our restaurant," he said.
Urban Outfitters and several neighboring businesses were riddled with bullet holes , with an Asheville Police Department forensics team investigating the damage.
Businesses' Role in Policing, Policy, and Change - Twin Cities Business
But some local leaders say the state’s business community can play a pivotal role in driving major changes. Tawanna Black, founder and CEO of the Center for Economic Inclusion, said businesses and business leaders do have an impact on policing. The center focuses on strengthening the Twin Cities region’s civic infrastructure and capacity to disrupt systems.
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“Any business leaders or institutions who might have contracts with the Minneapolis Police Department can strongly consider and reconsider those contracts, unless and until the Minneapolis Police Department is reconstituted, and the Minneapolis City Council and state legislature do the hard work of redesigning that institution to ensure that it is antiracist,” she said.
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Here's how you can help damaged Birmingham businesses - al.com
Volunteers and workers board up a broken window at California Fashion Mall in downtown Birmingham Monday, June 1, 2020, following a night of unrest that resulted in significant property damage to at least 13 businesses in downtown Birmingham.
Several efforts are underway to help businesses damaged by unrest Sunday night and early Monday in downtown Birmingham.
The Birmingham Business Relief Fund will support small businesses and storefronts in the downtown Central Business District that sustained damage.
Downtown Cleveland business owners reckon with 'gut punch' of damage caused during George
CLEVELAND, Ohio — As downtown Cleveland continues to be under heavy police surveillance due to Saturday's protests, business owners and residents are already longing for any sense of normalcy after a rough year.
Like every other neighborhood, the coronavirus pandemic destroyed any semblance of normalcy in the city's central business district, with orders from the Ohio Health Department forcing restaurants and stores to close and public fear of the virus keeping patrons away once they re-opened. Now they have the added stress of reckoning with a yet-to-be calculated amount of damage caused by looters and vandals .
U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism
The psychological impact of these public events — and the way it carries over into the workplace — cannot be overstated. Research shows that how organizations respond to large-scale, diversity-related events that receive significant media attention can either help employees feel psychologically safe or contribute to racial identity threat and mistrust of institutions of authority .
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Keeping silent . For people not directly impacted by these events, the default response is often silence. Many Whites avoid talking about race because they fear being seen as prejudiced, so they adopt strategic colorblindness instead. We know that many managers also think they lack the skills to have difficult conversations around differences.
Bronzeville Business Owners Devastated After Being Targeted By Looters – CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — The owner of a South Side business said he stood guard at his store trying to deter looters, but then it became too much.
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CBS 2’s Tim McNicholas had the story Monday night of that business owner and his uphill battle.
“All my dad could do was just watch,” said Hannah Marie Kim. “He was just so helpless.”
The Kim family knew what they’d see at their store, City Fashions, on Monday morning. But that doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking.
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