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In an office environment, we have a set amount of time each day to achieve the outcomes we want and so we have to use the tools that will not only allow us to get more done, but to make sure we're using out time effectively. In order to understand how efficiently we're working, we have to be able to measure how much time we spend on a task.
Timing allows us to do just that. It monitors how you use your Mac, recording how much time you spend using apps like Safari, Photoshop and Coda, to name but a few. It then categorizes the time spent so you can quickly see how much time you've spent, say, on social media, web browsing, coding, or image editing.
You can create projects and drag elements into them. So, for example, if the four hours you spent in Photoshop today was on a specific project, just drag the timing onto it.
Timing will then show you how much time you've spent on that project. If you create projects for specific clients, it will show you how much time you've spent working for a particular client, making it easy to bill them at the end of the month.
The app also allows you to manually record how much time you spend on tasks. By using Timing to monitor how you spend time on your Mac, you can easily cut out less productive tasks and focus on those that contribute towards results. Getting started in the morning can take a quite a while. By the time you log on to your Mac and then launch all the apps, open folders and find documents for a project, half an hour can pass. Workspaces cuts that time by remembering where everything you need for specific projects is located.
Click on its menu bar item, select the project you want to work on and Workspaces will open everything you need to get started without you having to lift another finger. If it saves 15 minutes every time you switch to a different project, that could easily amount to several hours a week.
If analysis of the results of using Timing shows that you're spending too much of your time on social media or on other distractions, Focus can help you with that. Focus allows you to block access to apps like Twitter or to specific websites, like Facebook.
You can schedule when it runs, so that apps and websites are only blocked during working hours. And a progress tracker shows you when sites have been blocked.
If you use a large screen display and have lots of windows open at once, you'll know that they can become a distraction and reduce your productivity. One solution is HazeOver , a tool that dims all but the active window on screen. When you switch applications or windows, HazeOver switches too and highlights the new window while dimming the rest.
When analyzing a company's processes, effectiveness takes precedence over efficiency. Productivity relates the output of goods and services of the company to the inputs of all the resources used in the production of goods and services.
In other words, it measures how well a company transforms resources into products. Productivity is the combination of efficiency and effectiveness. This means that a company that only attains efficiency or effectiveness is either partially productive or not productive at all. To be productive, a company needs to be efficient and effective at the same time. Relating efficiency and effectiveness overcomes the shortcomings of using either of them alone.
If managers focus on efficiency alone, they may jeopardize the competitiveness of their company. For example, mere focus on efficiency ignores the contribution of the activity to customer value creation.
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