Operational Alignment to Remove Customer Irritants
Every customer has unique expectations from her purchases. These expectations range from quality to unfaltering customer support. The challenge posed to every business is its ability to orchestrate the operations to meet these expectation. Failure to do so translates into irritations for customers. Here is a list of eight customer… [More]
Using Insightful Survey Questions
A Framework for Process Management
Excelling businesses are supported by well integrated processes within and across different functional areas. In order to maintain high performing processes in a rapidly changing business environment, it is essential to have a sound process management framework. There are six elements to a process management framework. Ownership A plant foreman… [More]
Output versus Outcome
Five Steps for Overcoming Data Quality Issues
Data is like oxygen for a business. To make better decisions, businesses need data to eliminate unfavourable options and affirm their choices. Unfortunately, data is abundant but it doesn’t imply quality. In many businesses, data are captured in multiple systems. One system might assign a customer number as a unique… [More]
Productivity Measures
The Leap to Excellence
The Pantheon in Rome is an ancient structure that displays architectural and engineering excellence. The circular dome consumed over 4,500 metric tons of concrete. The base of the dome is over 20 feet deep, tapering to just under 4 feet to the top around the centre oculus. It is the… [More]
How Good Leadership Can Solve Persistent Problems
A meeting with the accountant for an organization can reveal a lot about leadership. The accounting team is responsible for payroll, billing, payment processing, and the financial statements. In order to do its work well, it needs to gather input from managers and others. With the month-end cycle, every activity… [More]
Measurement Myth: The More You Measure, the Better
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