by billc | Apr 18, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Financial, Production & Operations, Strategy, Structure & Organization
Ineffective workflow Ineffective workflow besides causing frustration, has to be very expensive for the company. Problem Depth...
by billc | Mar 2, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Production & Operations, Strategy, Structure & Organization
Changing priorities too frequently (a) Usually indicative of a seat-of-the pants operation, it frustrates good staff. (b) In a larger firm, frequent changes can occur because no formal system of prioritization is in place. (c) Or, a manager is not behaving...
by billc | Feb 5, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Management, Accountability & Responsibility, Production & Operations, Strategy, Structure & Organization
People don’t know what the real priorities are Agreement on how to classify the company priorities needs to be found. Then those priorities must be communicated to each affected person. This could be based as a simple Miscommunication issue, or be driven by the far...
by billc | Jan 21, 2009 | Communications & Information Flow, Financial, Production & Operations, Sales, Marketing & Clients
Don’t know profitability of the bread-and-butter lines Sometimes the most popular products are not making money. This is what we call a simpler issue, meaning it is easier to resolve quickly, than many other issues. Problem Depth...