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Business Process Management (BPM) Consultancy, Torque Management, is pleased to announce its appointment as a value-added reseller of the Tibco Nimbus® product (www.tibco.com). Under this agreement Torque Management will sell Tibco Nimbus software and deliver first-level support and ancillary services for the software.
How Much Do You Love Your SOPs Part 3: Information Availability
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How Much Do You Love Your SOPs Part 2: Defects
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How Much Do You Love Your SOPs Part 1: Duplication
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How much do you love your SOPs? Introduction
By Dee Carri
lang: en_US
Over the years, organisations have spent vast sums of money developing, documenting, implementing and managing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) (See Q.20).The theory is that with SOPs in place people performing tasks are provided with clear instructions, making them more productive and making tasks repeatable with consistent outcomes. Management know that staff follow the clear instructions so it frees up management for higher value work and inspectors, auditors and regulators can trace a regulation through to an SOP or SOPs will prove that the regulation is implemented correctly.
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What is a work instruction?
A work instruction is a description of a specific task or activity within a company. These are often described in detail and for some industries, require acknowledgment of receipt.
What is wrong with text-based SOPs?
SOPs are a critical part of compliance, quality and oftentimes, training. Traditional, text-based SOPs can consist of thousands of documents and frequently fail to demonstrate to the user their specific role and the relationship of the task at hand, to the whole. Other documents, forms or members of staff may be connected to one SOP and sometimes these dynamic elements are unclear and hard to locate or even understand. For organisations with numerous SOPs and especially in regulated industries, overlap occurs, meaning there is waste that can be eliminated when the SOP process is approached in a more systematic and holistic way. Converting traditional text based SOPs to process-centric procedures, allows for this. Torque Management's TPSoP® solution enables you to streamline your organisation's procedures and create user-friendly SOPs in an online, connected, easy to understand environment. TPSoP® offers the tools and techniques to develop SOPs that are easy to deploy, change and re-deploy; making the methodology ideal for companies who wish to better comply with quality standards or compliance and for development of repeatable training that can be used even for a geographically dispersed, multi-lingual audience.
What is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)?
There are many definitions of an SOP but we like this one for its simplicity.