You’ve got to excel at something! Q. What does JetStar concentrate on? A. Efficiency, followed by Product Leadership Q. What does David Jones concentrate on? A. Product Leadership and Customer Intimacy You can’t do all three of these. What you do defines the shape of your organisation. I’ve consulted with many businesses over the years …
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Having a business process management background, I’ve looked to pin down my own processes as much as possible. One venture I’ve defined processes for is Four Foot Fotos, a Ballarat based pet photography business I run with one of my daughters. I’ve had a recent windfall: the Ballarat International Foto Biennale invited me to do …
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I’ve been watching a video on modelling approach for Enterprise Business Architecture. The presenter comes from a university research background. It’s refreshing to see someone who understands this territory well presenting on this subject matter. To me, it’s not rocket science; it’s intuitive at this stage, but I must remember it took me years to consume …
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The SAFE Agile Framework is such a good thing. Whilst my early exposure to Agile was encouraging as far as innovation and rapid turnaround, I also saw a disregard for architecture. An early pilot in a large organisation I was in re-wrote name and address validation when it was already available: identified in the architecture …
My new tagline for The Process Expert is “Helping your business gain operational efficiency and better your customer service”, which focuses more clearly on operational efficiency and customer service by dropping product & service improvement. Why the change? Because I realised my consulting was set toward two of the three disciplines I’ve commonly talked about for …
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I was in Silicon Valley in 2005. I went to Intalio, but also met some execs at PeopleSoft. What really floored me back then was the way the Americans invest in projects, willing to write off 9 out of 10 because if they picked well, the 10th would give them a nice big return. I’d …
“BEATING THE BUSINESS BUGS” business briefings This briefing will walk you through the value chain of activities necessary to get control of and improve your business processes. I’ll give you methods to look at and some free tools available on the web that can help you. By the end of this briefing, you’ll look at your business operations with fresh …
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Nine Out Of Ten Businesses Struggle With Business Bugs! Nine out of ten SMEs struggle with mix-ups from phone calls, having to rectify things gone wrong, needing to enter information into multiple applications (and making mistakes in doing so) and just having no real feeling for the overall logical processes that drive their business. These …
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