Friday, February 3, 2017

Business Process Improvement Phoenix Goes Back To The Basics

By Martha Sullivan


There comes a time in your profession/career wherein you must make a choice: and you can decide to either choose to "glow" or "grow" when choosing a career path. Growing signifies that you are ready to take on new challenges and bigger responsibilities. You are ready to step out of your current position and move up to a bigger stage. Glowing on the other implies that you opt to stay behind to sharpen and improve your skills further in your specific field. While other organizations opt to grow, allow your firm to glow with the use of business process improvement Phoenix and be the best organization within your field.

Today, organizations live and die based on the adaptiveness and strength of their processes, as compared to that of their competitors. But does it imply that the methodologies and tools used (Six Sigma, Lean, BPM) are not good and should be replaced with something new? I think not. The methodologies and tools can certainly be improved and expanded, but they are proven to work

Taking a time out is also a great way to get things off your chest with how a business process is operating. When we get upset with how a procedure is operating (and how others are operating their part of the process) and we declare this in the office then we are perceived as merely ranting.

BPI also emphasizes measurable results in your company. Having company statistics can help you keep track of the things that need to improve and things that need to be maintained. The numbers do not lie; so you better take advantage of them.

Having a clear focus when you take a time out is essential. An unclear period of time to discuss getting better can work but, in my experience, having a sense of clarity about why you are having a time out can make your time far more effective and productive.

When using this method, it is important to define what the company's existing structure is, its current processes and what changes are imperative. Clear timelines with well-defined goals must be kept in order for the method to work. It is also important that the company's resources not be spread too thinly in order for BPI to work.

If a company is on the verge of bankruptcy or otherwise not doing as well as it needs to be, BPI is a quicker method to get things back on track as long as the right team is put together to be sure that tasks are done as they should be.

Find some people who have different perspectives and share your ideas. If you are looking for a rule of thumb to decide if your time outs are working then use this; the benefits you actually realize in your venture need to outweigh the cost of running the meetings. In most ventures this is very easy to achieve, so why don't you plan your first 'time out' today?




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