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  Bill Evans

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  Competitive Necessity

  Becoming a Process Focused Organization
  
  Process improvement is a competitive necessity. Unfortunately many of today’s companies are addicted to fire-fighting and crisis management leaving little time to focus on their processes.
  
  Willie Carter in his latest article titled: “Becoming a Process Focused Organization”, explains that becoming a process focused organization requires sustained effort even in these tough economic times. Willie writes that “the few times I have witnessed successful improvement initiatives is when the leadership was involved and focused on improving the “vital few” cross-functional business processes that provide a product or service to the customer”
  
  This article is found on the “ideas” page, please go to http://www.techmankanata.com/WCarter_pdf/Become-Process-Focu...
  I am looking for authors. People with experience, who are interested in sharing their experiences, and who are passionate about their experiences.
  
  Best Wishes,
  
  Bill Evans
  http://www.techmankanata.com
  
  • 05 Oct 2009, 6:11 pm
  Bill Evans wrote: > Becoming a Process Focused Organization > > Process improvement is a competitive necessity. Unfortunately many of > today’s companies are addicted to fire-fighting and crisis management > leaving little time to focus on their processes. > > Willie Carter in his latest article titled: “Becoming a Process > Focused Organization”, explains that becoming a process focused > organization requires sustained effort even in these tough economic > times. Willie writes that “the few times I have witnessed successful > improvement initiatives is when the leadership was involved and > focused on improving the “vital few” cross-functional business > processes that provide a product or service to the customer” > > This article is found on the “ideas” page, please go to > http://www.techmankanata.com/WCarter_pdf/Become-Process-Focused.pdf > I am looking for authors. People with experience, who are interested > in sharing their experiences, and who are passionate about their > experiences. > > Best Wishes, > > Bill Evans > www.techmankanata.com
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  Bryan Todd

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  Re: Competitive Necessity

  Hi Bill,
  One of my memories that was jogged by this article was about this company that was doing a big project for another company. We were coming up on a contract renewal and my company had many employees with plenty of experience to overcome the obstacles that tried to jerk the project from existence. One of the main things that I noticed was that the retention of valued employees was low on the priority list. The company would much rather just hire new people and pay them lower rates verses keeping more experienced employees and pay them a little bit more honoring the fact of their expertise. Eventually, that was the main factor that made the contract collapse. Sometimes it is worth keeping people who know what they are doing rather than be greedy about it. I'm sure my day will come to be the decision maker on a project and this will be a big part of my strategy. Greed Greed Greed, there is no place for it. Thanks and take care,
  Bryan
  
  • 31 Dec 2009, 01:33 am
  Bryan Todd wrote: > Hi Bill, > One of my memories that was jogged by this article was about this > company that was doing a big project for another company. We were > coming up on a contract renewal and my company had many employees > with plenty of experience to overcome the obstacles that tried to > jerk the project from existence. One of the main things that I > noticed was that the retention of valued employees was low on the > priority list. The company would much rather just hire new people > and pay them lower rates verses keeping more experienced employees > and pay them a little bit more honoring the fact of their expertise. > Eventually, that was the main factor that made the contract > collapse. Sometimes it is worth keeping people who know what they > are doing rather than be greedy about it. I'm sure my day will come > to be the decision maker on a project and this will be a big part of > my strategy. Greed Greed Greed, there is no place for it. Thanks > and take care, > Bryan