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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. The bottom line is Texas officials had been warned many times over the last 30 years about their energy infrastructure not being winterproof. Get to the point you do as little as possible with the day-to-day operations. Know what you are going to do.

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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business

I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. While keeping CX top of mind throughout the whole M&A process is challenging, the benefits are undeniable: It keeps your most coveted customers and your team intact.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in. Great team leaders creatively renew the energy and focus of this team, this takes reiteration.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in. Great team leaders creatively renew the energy and focus of this team, this takes reiteration.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” ” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

.”) This allows leaders to focus on their team members’ well-being and to measure the impact of new processes, technologies, and care models on the well-being of physicians, nurses, and staff. They also enable them to make changes as-needed before fatigue and frustration are imbedded within a system’s operations and culture.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Over time, the executives get so engrossed in running the day to day operations of the business that they forget that the purpose of the business is to serve it’s customers. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith. Operate in good faith: Your relationship with your customer does not stop at the point of sale.

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