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Farm management

To support Western Australian farm businesses, the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA) provides farm planning workshops to build business skills, business capacity and a better understanding of the profit drivers in your business.

DAFWA also assists farm businesses and rural communities that are experiencing financial difficulty by supporting State and Federal assistance schemes that aim to build the ongoing financial resilience of our farm businesses.

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    Improvement tools: Continuous improvement and innovation

    12 December 2013

    Continuous improvement and innovation, or CI&I, is a process that can be used to drive business improvement and innovation.

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    Improvement tools: Inverse thinking

    12 December 2013

    Inverse thinking is used to think about how to go about achieving a goal or solving a problem. It helps us to be creative and break out of old ways of thinking by getting us to think about the oppo

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    Business improvement toolbox

    6 December 2013

    How do you remove a screw without a screwdriver? The right tool can make all the difference.

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    Improvement tools: Five Ws and one H

    6 December 2013

    The Five Ws and one H tool is easy to use.  It can be used for lots of things including planning action and solving problems.

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    Improvement tools: Force field analysis

    5 December 2013

    When working towards a goal there are often things that help us and other things that work against us. Force field analysis looks at ways to manage these helpful and unhelpful effects.

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    Improvement tools: Eight criteria technique

    5 December 2013

    The Eight criteria technique is used to compare different options for achieving a goal. It also highlights issues that need to be managed when implementing the selected option.

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    Improvement tools: Impact and influence

    5 December 2013

    The Impact and influence tool is used to help to decide which options to choose to achieve a goal. This tool uses two criteria:

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    Improvement tools: How-how diagrams

    4 December 2013

    A How-how diagram helps to identify ways to achieve a goal or solve a problem. It shows a range of possible solutions all in one place.

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    Improvement tools: Critical success factors and key performance indicators

    4 December 2013

    In any business there are a number of things that have to be in place and working well if the business is to achieve its goals. These are the critical success factors (CSFs).

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    Improvement tools: Repetitive why technique

    4 December 2013

    The question "Why?" can be a powerful problem finding tool, particularly when it is asked at least five times in a row.  The Repetitive why technique uses the question "Why?" to get past the sympto

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