Revolutionizing Business Operations: How to Build Dynamic Processes for Enduring Competitive Advantage (for . .)

"A key purpose of this book is to introduce a fundamentally different approach to business transformation. It is fascinating to see that without exception, all existing publications on business process transformation don't just foster the one-time deal approach, but also take a sequential, step by step design (i.e., start with business strategy, then assess the landscape of current transformation projects in the company, then create a portfolio of ideas/projects, then execute with the latest methods like Agile, then finally, plan to make the new culture systemic). If we were to draw an analogy, this would be like the national economic development approaches of the old 5-year plans made famous by Soviet Union planners in the previous century. As it turned out, the real-world, occasionally chaotic but dynamic, open market, capitalism-based plans fared much better. The equivalent in business process change is "Dynamic Business Transformation." There is a need for a dynamic, living model for constant, ongoing process evolution and optimization. The Dynamic Business Transformation model achieves that. It addresses the issue because it gets to the root causes underlying the recurring obsolescence of work processes. First, even the best work process design can get stale if it does not constantly compare itself with the most disruptive new ideas across companies, and more importantly across industries. Second, functional work processes tend to be optimized within their own siloes. That leads to sub-optimization at an end-to-end level. And finally, unless there is a disciplined methodology to organically drive this constant re-optimization to every person in the operation, it leads to the jerky fits-and-starts model of business transformation"-- Provided by publisher Don't risk the dire consequences of your work processes becoming obsolete-discover a powerful model for constant, ongoing, enterprise-wide process evolution and optimization. If you have a great product, but don't have the operations in place to efficiently and effectively support it-production, manufacturing, sales, finance, human resources, etc.-you won't succeed. Product innovation is seen as flashier and so gets far more attention, but you can create an enduring competitive advantage by revolutionizing business operations. The problem is most attempts to improve business operations are reactive, sporadic, and siloed. Tony Saldanha and Filippo Passerini's Dynamic Process Transformation model provides a living model for constant, ongoing process evolution and optimization. The authors focus on maximizing three drivers of change. First, open market rules-each business process must be run as a separate business, instead of via monolithic mandates coming down from on high. Second, there must be unified accountability- outcomes must be clear and consistent across the company, instead of being siloed within departments. And third, there needs to be a dynamic operating engine, a methodology to convert the constantly changing business process goals into tactical day-to-day employee actions. With numerous examples from leading companies, this book shows how to proactively keep business processes across the company from becoming obsolete and take advantage of a neglected key to success.