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Saving ?osts in a Long-Term Perspective: How a Resource Management Solution Will Help You Gain More in the Long Run

Epicflow

Also, if a company decides to cut expenses but does nothing to increase operational efficiency, it may lead to delivering low-quality output and decreased customer satisfaction. To achieve this, you should analyze your business processes, improve operational efficiency, and identify the causes of excessive expenses.

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How to Discover and Own Your Consulting Superpower: Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Now, all of a sudden their operations are getting very sophisticated. I felt like they got a lot out of it. We don’t have to do that.

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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

Like the Texas utilities, there’s no preparation for the actual event. Have a list of tactics, whether it’s for growth, margin improvement, expense reduction, process improvement, an improved culture, or something else. Get to the point you do as little as possible with the day-to-day operations.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

External factors: Sometimes, external factors beyond the team’s control, such as external pressures, changes in market conditions, or unexpected events, can disrupt teamwork and make it difficult for team members to work together effectively.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in. One-time events on any of these steps are almost useless. They lay a foundation for progress.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in. One-time events on any of these steps are almost useless. They lay a foundation for progress.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable. Don’t put process over people. Consider hiring a “customer operations” person to focus on automation full-time.

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