The need for sound processes increases with the size of a business. Businesses with consistent and congruent processes are able to provide excellent customer service, deliver high quality products and services, and they have a strong foundation for profitable growth. From a startup to a multi-national enterprise, effective processes play… [More]
Individual vs Team Performance
How Trust Strengthens Performance Culture
The vice president of a professional service company has been inundated with complaints from his project managers about getting engineers to work on projects. The complaint is that the engineering department has been tardy in assigning resources, causing delays in kicking off projects in a timely manner. Often, the assigned… [More]
How to Drive Focus on Team Success
Framework for Performance Measurement
Performance measurement is a critical tool for guiding strategy execution, decision making, and operational improvement. Every business does track financial results on a regular basis. There is no doubt financial health is important but performance in other aspects of the business is just as crucial. In fact, operational and customer… [More]
Can Your Measures Answer the ‘So what’ Question?
How to Manage Meeting Action Items and Get Results
Meetings are held to gather input, discuss issues, develop solutions, make decisions, and identify next steps. They facilitate the development of alignment from the attendees on the plan of action, which in turn becomes a commitment to delivering the desired outcomes. Each meeting generates many action items. To ensure that… [More]
How to Make Your Dashboard Useful
How to Overcome Top 5 Operational Excellence Challenges
Customer expectations and competition continue to exert pressures on businesses to strive for operational excellence. Despite a familiar topic for executives and senior leaders, there is still ample room to grow and excel in creating exceptional customer value through operational excellence. A recent survey conducted by Proqis on the Global… [More]
Decisive Risk-taking
Crossing the road blind-folded is not a good idea. You risk missing the curb or running into other people. For the visually impaired people, they are trained to handle these risks. They use a cane and listen to the accessible pedestrian signal for cues. Risk-taking is inevitable in business. Avoiding… [More]
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