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1. attempts of ANY KIND TO MOTIVATE โ> creating MEANINGFUL WORK
2. BUZZWORDS on notice boards โ> capturing KEY VALUES
3. Concern for MATERIAL REINSURANCE -> focus on the CARING ENVIRONMENT
4. corporate SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY โ> corporate EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITY
5. separate DEPARTMENTS โ> united TEAMS
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- Product Management role is not-so-easy to fit in the dichotomy of good and bad, right or wrong. Product work is a multi-faceted decision-making process that doesnโt always have a clear winner.
- The first rule of learning Product Management is doing Product Management. Itโs not a job with an easy learning process. People from diverse backgrounds can and are encouraged to get into Product Management.
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As always, I can only read between the lines, combine various signals, information and experiences from the labor market, unlock trends in the United States and Western Europe, watch the progress and the actions of inspirational companies, and polish my Employer Branding crystal ball. I have been faithful to this approach for many years. So, what do I see in the next year? With my eyes closed, I see "people dancing around the company fire in a celebration of a meaningful workplace progression for them". Well, well - let's move the metaphors into a more comprehensible form - 5 specific directions that could be enacted in the new year in Employer Branding.
1. attempts of ANY KIND TO MOTIVATE โ> creating MEANINGFUL WORK
2. BUZZWORDS on notice boards โ> capturing KEY VALUES
3. Concern for MATERIAL REINSURANCE -> focus on the CARING ENVIRONMENT
4. corporate SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY โ> corporate EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITY
5. separate DEPARTMENTS โ> united TEAMS
Many responsibilities of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) are exclusive. Superior financial and competitive performing businesses understand these responsibilities.
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Having gone through this process several times, I created an Evernote list with questions to ask in order to be thorough in gathering all the information. Over the years that simple list grew unwieldy with hundreds of questions so I dumped it into a Word doc and then got the bright idea to turn it into an ebook for B2B CMOs -- the only one of it's kind.
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- Role of โProduct Managerโ varies a lot depending on multiple factors. Itโs important to be aware of this variation, especially as an early-career PM to be able to make the right decisions.
- There are common elements to a product role. There are (soft) skills you can improve on which will help you throughout your PM career. The best way to improve these skills is to find learning opportunities to refine these skills.
- Product Management role is not-so-easy to fit in the dichotomy of good and bad, right or wrong. Product work is a multi-faceted decision-making process that doesnโt always have a clear winner.
- The first rule of learning Product Management is doing Product Management. Itโs not a job with an easy learning process. People from diverse backgrounds can and are encouraged to get into Product Management.
These slides are my own point of view on what product management is about, how it works in the real world, what I look for when hiring, and how to land that first gig.
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Manufacturing Managers, are you ready to be the CEO!
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Manufacturing Veterans, are you ready to be the CEO?
Shridhar Lolla, PhD
CVMark Consulting
First Draft, to be edited
2013
Summary:
Within manufacturing organizations, the share of CEOs with manufacturing background is
dwindling; which is a big concern for today's practitioners and veterans of manufacturing.
Unless your tenure in manufacturing can decisively show that manufacturing is strategic to
your business, factory ceiling is the limit for you. Read this article to break free from career
stagnation and get a glimpse at how manufacturing head of a leading organization made his
own way for the top position in the organization.
Keywords: manufacturing, manufacturing managers, manufacturing organizations, career
progression, competitive edge, CEO
___________________________________________________________________________
Have been knowing Sanjay Thakur (Jay) for almost twenty years now. I had seen him very
closely in our factory running the machining shop. He was very young then, may be just 2
years out of college. He was identified as the future manager for the organization's
manufacturing operations. His keen interest in TQM and Lean had brought him a lot of
accolades. We were excited by the figures he would display in monthly management
meetings about his exploits of cost reduction, fuel savings, energy conservation, savings in
packaging material and reduction in distance travelled by castings. He was very focused and
he almost lived inside the factory.
Since then he has grown to manufacturing head position, now in a large capital goods
manufacturers from the US. He is responsible for one of the largest multi product
manufacturing facilities and commands a large team and budget. We are still connected
and often share our experience of what's happening in manufacturing industry.
When he had called me a year back there were clear signs of investment in infrastructure
sectors opening up in an unprecedented way. Being an adviser to manufacturing
companies, I often receive request to identify real competent manufacturing professionals
to lead manufacturing operations. I also noticed that the calls from organizations were a bit
increasing, desperately seeking seasoned senior manufacturing managers. There were a
few opportunities for Jay too, and hence the context.
Our conversation revealed that Jay was aspiring for the next level of role. As per his profile,
the next one that fitted well was the role of COO, Chief Operating Officer. But there were
very few companies in my knowledge with such specific roles. These days, mostly, CEOs and
CFO have been filling part of that role. Jay had been through 3 big organizations in his
career and had been in the role of heading manufacturing in all of them. He seemed a sort
of stuck in that position reporting to the CEO.
He had said, 'I had enough of manufacturing... I would like to try my hands in sales, business
development or strategy....'
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However, because of his specialization and seniority, there were few organizations ready to
take him in roles other than that of manufacturing. He tried in his own organizations but
was told that the organization needed him in manufacturing. In fact, he badly wanted to
move up the rung and be a CEO soon.
Normally manufacturing organizations have CEOs who are from manufacturing operations
background but it seemed that the things have changed a lot during past few decades. You
would now have MBA graduates coming from Marketing or Finance background often
preferred for the top most position. In fact, Jay too had done an MBA long back,
unfortunately he was so immersed in manufacturing activities day in day out that he never
got the chance to showcase his knowledge of business management.
A recent study by my team indeed showed that share of managers with background in
managing manufacturing holding CEO positions in manufacturing companies has come
down significantly since 1980s. In fact, it has become difficult for engineers to rise to the
top today in manufacturing or engineering organization. The shift is becoming very clear in
market based economy where the demand from the top management is much more than
knowledge of manufacturing. Perhaps, big picture approach, the tools, structured
methodologies and case based learning of MBA schools are making a lot of sense in
developing skills in managing business better than the sheer technical skills imparted by
engineering colleges.
Figure: During past few decades the share of CEOs with manufacturing background in
manufacturing organizations has dipped significantly
During our discussion that day, we realized that all along his career, Jay has been managing
manufacturing operations, trying to achieve production targets, chasing marketing plans,
improving quality and reducing cost. This is where he had spent whole of his close to 2
decades of career. He had been part of several operational as well as corporate review
meetings, but all these meetings were nailed down to manufacturing reviews. He never got
an opportunity to think on behalf of his company nor anybody was ever expected or
interested in hearing anything strategic or business-wise from him.
In the organizations he worked for, thinking big (strategic) had been left to the CEOs,
Marketing Heads, Strategy Groups and the CFOs. Nobody ever gave him a damn if he spoke
anything about customers, market, competition etc. Of course everybody liked his native
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character and were personally very good to him, but professionally people in the corporate
office were satisfied limiting their relationship of asking for more output from his factories.
He was even not there in the planning of supply chain that wields enough strategic
importance in today's globalized world. In reality he was always in his role detached from
the main strategy making of the company, he had little influence in the direction his
company was going to take. He was just a follower. Yes, people always said,
manufacturing's job is to follow the demand from the market.
Thus, despite his huge experience in the so called high places in manufacturing, there was
real big gap between where he was and where he wanted to (should) be.
After several phone calls, I ultimately told him, 'It is not difficult to get what you aspire for;
may it be CEO position, provided you are ready to learn.'
'Ok, how much time would it take?'
'What's lead time of your business?'
'10 weeks!'
'10 weeks! Ok, allocate around 3 quarters for you to be considered worthy of CEO position
by your own organization.'
It was becoming clear to us that,
1. His image was not such that he was cut for the top job
2. He had never shown strategic thinking on discussion about growth of the company.
3. Nobody ever expected him to show strategic thinking and perhaps, aspire for the top job.
In none of the organizations he had worked for, manufacturing did not provide a
competitive edge. A competitive edge is the one, which a company can use to leave
competitors far behind in capability and time; and grab market share. In most of the cases
his organizations were getting business due to functionalities of product, sales efforts,
technology or reach. Manufacturing did not provide any competitive edge, whose
attributes the sales team could sell to win deals.
'Looks like I am only responsible for myself being in manufacturing...,' he had said
broodingly.
'May be, but it is not late, you can, with your experience make manufacturing capability as
a competitive edge that could win your organization more deals. You can make
manufacturing a strategic resource for the organization. If that happens, you would be in
the lime light of strategic discussions and main decision making body of your organization
than just getting stuck in budgeting and review meetings' I had advised.
'You would need to prove that the organization is able to compete in the market because of
you.'
'But I am already executing the orders brought by sales efficiently'.
'Yes, you are only executing orders brought by sales team and may be a little efficiently...
Every other manufacturing guy is doing the same in respective organization. This is not yet
a level to provide a competitive edge. The sales team is not getting order because of you.' I
explained.
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Then I asked fervently, 'Is your sales team telling to customers that they get orders because
of anything specific in your manufacturing capability?'
'No.'
'Then...'
'So what do I do?' he asked earnestly.
'You will have to show that manufacturing is not a reactive function but a strategic one. A
function that provides a decisive competitive edge to the organization.'
'How do I do?'
'Go back to fundamentals of manufacturing operations!'
'I am already doing it.'
'No you are not. You are not seeing manufacturing from the eyes of marketing... from the
needs of customers.'
'Yes we do, we attend customer complaints...'
I had cut him short, 'Other than attending complaints... have you ever been able to
understand the real need your customers want to be fulfilled other than functionality of
products? A need, which is so painful that the customer has forgiven you and forgotten
about the need since no body in the industry care enough to fulfill it.'
'What do you mean?... Do you mean service quality?'
I realized that he was thinking hard.
I then briefed him about the 4 layers of Hayes and Wheelright's Manufacturing Maturity
Model. We realized that his manufacturing is at level 1 and there is a lot of scope for him to
improve manufacturing and make it strategic.
Figure: Hayes and Wheelright's Manufacturing Maturity Model
Thereafter, we agreed for a 9 month growth plan for Jay that would decisively open up an
opportunity of upward mobility for him. The objective was to see that he would be seen
strategic thinker, excellent decision maker and a prospect for CEO position.
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Jay's company makes capital goods, very critical and costly components that need to be
commissioned in time to justify ROI of large infrastructure of its customers. Since these
were customized , customers' business viability was greatly dependent on suppliers once
the purchase order was placed. Typically, the market accepted lead time was 120 days.
However, it was usual and considered a practice of the industry that orders were fulfilled in
not less than 180 days, despite the reason that the commissioning of these jeopardized the
ROI of customers. It was normal that expediters from customers would spend weeks at
suppliers premises to prioritize manufacturing of their orders.
A 180 day lead time as against a possible much lower than 120 days meant that the whole
supply chain and the industry was inefficient and sluggish, and in reality not many made
good money. Fortunes of companies in this industry were known to often fluctuate in
uncertainty.
Jay's company was ones holding 45% market share of the industry and had come down to
14%. The company was looking at expanding market to other regions and developing new
technologies to sustain itself, but those attempts were proving to be very costly and risky.
Jay agreed that the botched up delivery schedules in the industry was definitely looking like
an opportunity for someone to tap, while everybody else was considering it as a state of
the industry. If an organization was able to deliver products in less than 120 day or just as
promised while winning a deal, it would provide a 2 months higher ROI to the customer.
That would be worth more than any discount or pampering done in the name of marketing,
in addition to the sheer joy of commissioning customer's facilities on time. Should that
happen, Jay's company would be way ahead of competition in fulfilling an unmet need of
customers. The impact of such an initiative on sales and revenues was clearly evident.
...
Jay had no hesitation in approaching his Sales colleague to obtain frank inputs about
manufacturing and customer needs. Their discussion revealed that if his organization could
deliver products consistently in 120 days, it would make a big impact in the market. Soon
Jay along with his sales colleague had a joint meeting with the CEO and committed himself
to improving on time delivery and lead time of the organization. The CEO more than
welcomed his initiative and was very happy to see that his approach was backed by the
Sales Head and it promised dramatic growth in sales, if everything worked well.
Buy-in from Sales and the CEO was not sufficient for Jay to move ahead, he had then
brought in his entire manufacturing team and supply chain to commit to improving
deliveries.
With all set to go, Jay took one step at a time. He looked at the fundamentals of operations
and better aligned manufacturing to the market. As a first step he made improving flow of
work as the prime objective of manufacturing and made lead time as the prime measure.
Everybody was made aware to direct their effort to crash lead time. In a drastic step but
following the fundamental principles of operations management, he mellowed down the
measurement of capability of manufacturing that was based on quantity of shipments.
The only thing he had requested the sales team was to help him in reducing disturbance to
the short term planning while the team would be executing given orders already planned.
Manufacturing gave the onus of medium and long term plan to sales and supply chain, got
the short term plan frozen and followed manufacturing strictly as per the priority. Such
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priorities were strictly linked to the delivery dates committed by the sales team to
customers.
Subsequently, in order to make best use of the attention of his team and balance the flow,
he trained his staff on managing their plants by constraints than by trying to improve each
and every machine.
Within 6 months, the due date performance of manufacturing moved up from a low of 30%
to 95%. It resulted into less expediting on the shop floor, reduced urgent transportation
cost for inbound materials and outbound finished products.
With improvement in due date performance came many things shorter lead time, lower
inventory, less defects, lower working capital, higher throughput, happier customers and
more orders.
By the time it was 9 month since Jay started his mission, Sales team looked at
manufacturing with awe and congratulated manufacturing team on it new found glory. Not
to Jay's surprise, customer orders for the year zoomed up by 30%. In fact, the
manufacturing team was conformable offering 90 days as lead time,... which the sales team
kept up their sleeves for special orders.
The following annual report of the company had 'agility' as the key word on its front page
and the CEO in his address left no chance in claiming manufacturing as its strategic weapon
for gaining market leadership.... the glass ceiling in the corporate office had just opened for
Jay and everybody was amazed how he had significantly changed the strategy of the
company!
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About the Author
Shridhar is a business coach, and handholds teams in creating 'built to transform'
organizations. He specializes in implementing organizational programs in Business Model
Innovation, Focused Execution and Operational Excellence. By qualification, Shridhar is an
engineer and holds a PhD from IIT Delhi, India.
Early in his career, he worked with ABB, the Swiss power and automation technology leader,
where he held leadership positions in R&D, Product Development and Service Business.
Shridhar has authored two books on building operational excellence culture in today's business environment.
His first book, 'Building Manufacturing Competitiveness - The TOC Way' provides a way to dramatically
improve performance of manufacturing industry and thereby, resurrect economic growth in India. His second
book, 'The Path - Leveraging Operations in a Complex and Chaotic World' is a semi business novel about
improving impact of operations on business results. He is also a co-creator of the game changing book
'Business Model Generation'.
Shridhar is also a recognized coach for first generation entrepreneurs and is a part of Indian entrepreneurship
ecosystem. Spending the day with operational teams and helping them in revealing hidden capacity is his
calling.
Shridhar lives with his family in Bangalore, India, and can be contacted at lolla@cvmark.com or +91 94480
70081.