What are the pertinent components of Process Improvement? Examine a local store or business with which you are familiar. What specifically needs to improve? What processes are in place and what is not in place? For example, you can discuss customer service issues or product concerns.

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• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
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References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

Read the article: “An Application of Focus Theory to Project Management Processes” located in EBSCOhost in the Business Source Complete database. Chen, F., Nunamaker, J., Briggs, R., Corbitt, G., Sager, J., & Gardiner, S. (2014). An Application of Focus Theory to Project Management Processes. Group Decision & Negotiation, 23(5), 961-978. doi:10.1007/s10726-012-9323-5

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