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    The Efficient Manager: A guide to implementing business improvements through organizational alignment and strategic segmentation
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    The Efficient Manager: A guide to implementing business improvements through organizational alignment and strategic segmentation
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    The Efficient Manager: A guide to implementing business improvements through organizational alignment and strategic segmentation

    By Christopher Brathmill

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    About this ebook

    Purpose: This book explains a practical plan to implement and utilize an improvement program.  If you’re interested in improvement at any level, this book is going to help you organize your thoughts, your work and your strategy.   



    Are you trying to learn more about improvement and efficiency?  This book can help you regardless of the business role you play or your level of understanding.  In fact, this book is really about running a better business and working more efficiently.  Improvement is about segmenting your opportunities and then giving the best opportunities your most attention – learning how to fish and then fishing where the fish are.   


     


    Contents: This book is going to build an improvement program in three phases.  As you move from one phase to the next, your level of maturity increases.   


     


    Phase 1 – Quick Wins 


    • Creating a list of cost-saving ideas from all areas/divisions/functions of your organization 

    • Ranking the list by cost and benefit 

    • Implementing the projects with the best benefit/cost ratios 

    • Documenting the list of cost-saving ideas and sharing that list with the respective areas/divisions/functions for future use/addition/expansion 



     


    Phase 2 – Organization and Culture 


    • Senior leadership expectations 

    • Accountability and incentives 

    • Organizational alignment 

    • Key partnerships 

    • Tracking system 

    • Stage-gate process 

    • Win pipeline 

    • Training 

    • Pareto power 



     


    Phase 3 – Strategic Segmentation 


    • Segment customers and products 

    • Sort by profitability and growth 

    • Understand the value equation and tailor the solution 

    • Apply segmentation to daily operations 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishDrive
    Release dateMay 12, 2017
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    • 5/5
      An excellent book that gives a road map in how to improve a business. It's especially helpful for anyone managing a business or trying to learn more about improving a business (growth, cost savings, quality, etc.). Highly recommended if you're in the business world!
    • 5/5
      A great model for thinking about business improvements and building/implementing an improvement program in the workplace

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