Thursday 23 June 2011

Sustainable Performance

In organizations it is quite easy to produce exceptional results once or occasionally against all possible odds. I use the word easy due to the relative effort needed to produce exceptional results consistently on a sustainable basis. I want to share my learning to produce consistently sustainable results organizations.

1. Identify intermediate check points, when and how frequently to check
2. Establish what to check or "KPI: Key Performance Indicator" and how to calculate or arrive at this KPI
3. Define who calculates the KPI, who analyses the actual situation, forecasts the final result, compares with the target and defines the immediate containment, corrective and preventive actions.
4. Ensure that the KPI is released only after step 3 is completed.
5. Define who verifies that step is is being performed and at what frequency is this verified (once every three cycles would be preferred)
6. Assess the adherence (Steps 1 to 5) to the defined steps and modify system to ensure adherence.

Go ahead and get consistency through sustainable results in your business using the above steps. I must caution that it may take a several cycles till consistency is achieved. Apart from this consistency doesn't mean that the targets are met. Here you need to use these steps for the basic stability (SDCA) and deploy task forces to work with gaps and develop measures to reach the target (PDCA).

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