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Description: Lean and Agile workplaces depend heavily on the management choices for work design, measurement, rewards, team structures, working practices, methods and approaches to management and staff relationships.
These choices combine in complex ways to create a perception of ‘how it feels to work here’, which we call the ‘work-climate’. Research has demonstrated that work-climate is a proven predictor of long-term business performance.
By examining the ‘work-climate’, we can then ask the following questions:
What are the best choices for managers and staff to make?
What needs to be eradicated?
What needs to be redesigned?
How do we put the customer and our employees at the heart of the business?
The survey provides direction and demonstrable evidence the work-climate is moving in the right direction to support Lean and Agile working.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are typically used to measure the performance of a firm both at the strategic and operational level. KPIs often form the basis of a firm's goal management system: Each KPI is assigned and owner in the firm's top management, who is then responsible for reaching a particular target.
This case study shows that in order to find realistic targets for KPIs the firm's management needs a clear understanding of how the KPIs really measure the firm's performance, how they depend on each other and how KPI targets need to change over time in order to ensure the firm's ultimate goals are reached.
Our client in this case is a successful IT professional service firm that approached us because they wanted to find ways of increasing their growth rates organically. We took a holistic approach to analysing the firm's business model and KPIs using System Dynamics. The case study illustrates this using concrete examples, in particular regarding KPIs such as the firm’s leverage, the average fee, the utilisation, and the profit margin.
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During any change program, behaviours take time to adjust to new practices. Therefore, measuring and plotting the change in the work-climate provides assurance your changes are having the desired effect. Measuring and monitoring the work-climate will also detect any undesired effects and enable corrective actions to be taken.
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What needs to be eradicated?
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• How organisational design impacts collaboration
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• Innovation and change ability
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2. Driving your organization culture where everyone contributes to profitability, customer delight and innovation
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We action what we propagate and drive our activity to success. The entire aim is how we can work with your organization in a way where you (as Business Drivers) get to drive BD, Strategy and Finance and we manage the Operational issues that would be causing any issues.
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why businesses must consider a shift to a digital-first strategy and how it can benefit them in the long run. The presentation has covered how companies can begin their journey towards digital transformation and what they need to know in order to make the transition successful.
Client Experience for Professional Services - KeynoteCX Pilots
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It explores the difference between CX/CEM (customer experience) and Client Experience.
Customer Experience: Customer Experience is the sum total of all feelings and interactions a customer has with a brand over time. It’s a volume concern. Lower incremental stakes.
Sure, it’s about relationships, but it’s a lot more about removing friction from discrete interactions.
Client Experience: Client Experience has a similar sum but it is far more concerned with longevity and depth of relationships.While discrete interactions are important, it’s more about qualitative relationships where highly-skilled services are the “product” delivered, personally.
Businesses around the world
are exploring new and existing
channels and networks to access
clients. However, businesses
need to be aware of how their
clients are changing and
adapt accordingly, to ensure the
proposition they present is an
attractive one. But how does
this relate to the workplace?
Businesses need to adapt and change in
accordance with their clients, but this
needs to go beyond the surface. Simply
changing the product or service offering
is no longer sufficient. With increased
competition in the marketplace, it is
essential to explore all areas for
change including the business itself.
This includes the workplace.
Businesses need to become more
chameleon-like and adapt not only to
the clients they work with, but also adapt
to change within their organisation and
workplace. As we see it, real estate is the
Trojan horse through which the modern
business can drive and achieve such change.
The Corporate Real Estate (CRE) function
can be the catalyst for change in the
workplace, spearheading disruptive and
challenging activities. The CRE function also
has a significant role to play in where the
business operates in the world, how new
markets are accessed and how to attract
the best talent. Firmly sat in the middle of
all of this, is also a need for change. The
CRE Executives of today really are
therefore, change agents in disguise.
Ikyam is an SAP partner with a decade-long experience in driving businesses toward automation and digital resilience. As a concept-oriented organization with 2 major lines of business - ERP services and Product innovations, we add value at every stage of your business. Strategize, Transform, Adopt, Realize, Sustain (START): These are the core principles that drive Ikyam’s intelligent solutions.
We follow a mission-driven, customer-centric, comprehensive approach to deliver exceptional experiences to customers and partners. reliable partner for organizations seeking digital transformation solutions. Ikyam demonstrates a deep understanding of the importance of delivering tangible business outcomes. Our solutions showcase our ability to tailor solutions to specific market requirements. Our consulting-led digital transformation approach with a focus on converting challenges to opportunities sets us apart as a trusted partner for businesses.
Website
http://www.ikyam.com
Phone
9844429118Phone number is 9844429118
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size
51-200 employees
113 on LinkedIn
Includes members with current employer listed as IKYAM Solutions, including part-time roles.
Headquarters
Bengalore, Karnataka
Founded
2013
Specialties
SAP Business One, SAP HANA, ERP Solutions, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, SAP ByD, S4HANA, SAP, SAP Solutions, SAP Partner, SAP Silver Partner, ERP Application, Enterprise Solutions, Agile, Agility, User Experience, Digital Experience, SAP ERP, and SAP B1
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Business transformation is a key executive management initiative that attempts to
align People, Process and Technology initiatives of an organization more closely with
its business strategy and vision to support and help innovate new business strategies
and meet long term objectives. Business transformation is achieved through efforts
from alignment of People, Process and Technology areas towards an outcome-based
end-state, such as 50% increased revenue or 25% improved customer satisfaction.
It can be defined as:
Changing appearance - by improving services to customers
Changing shape – by review and reappraisal of what a business should do, by
working with partners and by making better use of all types of resources
Changing form – by improving the way the business works, and embraces new
organizational structures, skills, processes and technology¹.
Business transformation can be achieved through new technology, business models,
and management practices. Business transformation is now considered an essential
part of the competitive business cycle.
That is the definition of business transformation according to Wikipedia. How real is it?
How easy is it to implement? Once implemented, can it be followed? As a former Sr.
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¹Oxford City Council website: Business Transformation Strategy, October 2008.
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About 10 years ago, I held the position of Director of Operations. A better title for
the actual position was Transformation Executive. The main focus of the job
was to transform the business processes, improve the profit margin of the
company, and grow the business from our capabilities perspective.
When I was put into my role as the Director of Operations, the first task given to
me by the CEO of the company was to get the company’s measurement system
corrected. I quickly understood the pain the CEO was experiencing. The
company was trying to manage 176 different measurement criteria to run the
company. I learned that companies typically have either too much or too little
information to run an effective operation. We streamlined the measurement
system from 176 to 16 key metrics that the entire company would then be
measured against.
Once we got the entire company working to the 16 key metrics, we learned that
our business process model was not very connected. By this, I mean the
business processes were not connected to each other, so we could not get from
our current state to a steady state in our operation, and we could never get into a
continuous improvement mode of operation. As a result, we were over-
delivering and under-delivering in our service delivery model, which had a major
impact on our service delivery costs and profits. Our customer satisfaction was
also declining, and we were not growing our business. Our measurement system
helped identify these weaknesses in our company.
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The True Transformation
We had to fix this problem quickly if we were going to survive. With our customer
satisfaction declining and our profit margins being less than stellar, we needed change in
order to deliver on the promise we were making to our clients.
We kicked off a major transformation effort in order to fix a number of issues that were
causing us to either over-deliver to our terms and conditions or to under-deliver. We
worked with our technology and business staff to identify what was causing the majority of
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our issues. The findings from the team told us that we had insufficient data in and around
the terms and conditions of the contracts that we were delivering. When we did have
sufficient data for the terms and conditions, we did not have the technology in place to
pass the correct information along to the different processes in the company. To put the
issue into a nutshell, our service entitlement was, to say the least, not effective.
We learned that we had way too many sources of entitlement data. This data was in
different formats and none of it was close to being the same. Our service delivery
applications had no place to store this data and our delivery teams didn’t know what they
were supposed to be delivering.
We first tried to solve this issue by putting more people on the problem. This provided a
small improvement in the customer satisfaction area, but our profit margins continued to
decline. At the same time, our sales and marketing teams were growing the business at a
very rapid pace, and our corporate development team continued to acquire additional
companies to grow top-line revenues. We were still losing ground on improving the profit
side of the equation.
The people we deployed to fix our disparate data issue (entitlement data) began to raise
additional issues. We were falling further behind and the customer satisfaction started to
decline again. When this happened, we had to get the process people, the IT people, and
the people doing the day-to-day work all on the same page. We clearly defined each of
the groups’ issues and assigned tasks to the owner of either the process side, IT side, or
operations side of the issue.
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To our amazement, we started to see the groups function as one team. We began
chipping away at the issues until some of the internal bickering and extraneous
problems began to subside. We made investments in the business process and IT
infrastructure. We continued the measurement system and watched the 16 key
metrics. They all began to improve.
The Fruits of Our Labor
This company-wide transformation lasted about three years before we were acquired
by a fortune 100 company. If it wasn’t for all of the hard work from the executive level
of the company down to every single person that had a job to do in the company, we
would have never gotten to that point. Profits were shared with every person in the
company, from the president/CEO to the yard maintenance crew in the HQ facilities.
Technicians were proud to be part of the company and the logistics and material teams
were jumping through hoops to make sure that every service call we took had the
materials available so that we met the commitments we made to our clients in every
contract we sold.
The business results were phenomenal. It all goes back to this:
Business Transformation is a key executive management initiative that attempts to
align People, Process and Technology initiatives of an organization more closely with
its business strategy and vision, to support and help innovate new business strategies
and meet long-term objectives.
Business Transformation works. It is not for the faint of heart. Follow the principals,
stick to your strategic goals, and you will achieve your company’s goals and your
customer will love your company for you doing it.