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2016-June: Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter

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Issue: 2016-6
June 2016

Founder’s Corner
I say Tomato, You say Pomodoro

Joseph F Paris Jr

Communication.  We talk about how important it is.  How critical it is to have in any endeavor in order to move the ball down the field and, ultimately, for success.  Yet in almost every instance where there is failure, we can almost always trace back to one of the root-causes for the failure being a lack of communication – more specifically, effective communication…”
 

 

Why did the chicken cross the road?
By Piotr Pikula 
This the story of a animal feed company in Poland and answers the question “why did the chicken cross the road?”
 
With Tens of reports, hundreds of pages of data each division (function) and branch (geographical) had their own special little reports with their own numbers, sometimes contradicting each other and there were no standards for calculated indicators (different periods for averages, different geographical classifications and product categories). This was the reality I found when I entered a large producer of animal feed. Located in Poland… 

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Despite Benjamin’s protestations, the pair and their illustrious guests are brought down by the challenges of operational excellence in Government. Ed Straw, former PwC partner, think tank and national relationship counselling organisation board member, and author of Stand & Deliver: A Design for Successful Government, talks about the need for a systemic focus on results, and Sasa Linic, adviser to the prime minister of Serbia for the UN Development Programme, focuses on a need for transparency.

 

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“Operational Excellence is a state of readiness that is attained as the efforts throughout the organization reach a state of alignment for achieving its strategies; and where the corporate culture is committed to the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance AND the circumstances of those who work there – to pursue ‘
Operational Excellence by Design‘, and not by coincidence.”  

 

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