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Revenue Assurance; How to find and recover lost revenue

Operational inefficiency and revenue omission are two operational indicators of cost do not get enough attention and well camouflaged. Both are caused by ineffective, often misunderstood interactions between people process and systems. This paper describes how to realise the latent opportunity to improve revenues without having to find new customers and new markets. Read More

Lean Project Principles

Lean Project practices break though the performance barriers of project or programme execution. Project durations are routinely reduced by at least half, cash flows are transformed and resource contentions become much easier to resolve. This paper introduces the concepts behind Lean Projects and suggests a 4 step plan to adopt them in your organisation. Read More

The Role of a Project Sponsor

This note summarises the roles and responsibilities of a project sponsor and highlights some common sponsorship failings Read More

How to develop Vision and Mission Statements

This note discusses the difference between Vision and Mission suggests an approach to develop relevant and effective ‘statements’ Read More

How Process Enterprises Really Work

This note is authored by Michael Hammer and Steven Stanton and is published by the Harvard Business Review. Find out what it covers and where to buy it Read More

The impact of organisation design on performance

The effective organisation – adaptive, responsive, fast, and competitive – is the product of good design, not good fortune. This article explains components of effective organisation architecture, how they are put together and how good design guarantees excellent organisational performance. Read More

How to design a more effective organisation

Management teams rarely have explicitly agreed principles or guidelines to apply when planning and implementing organisational change. This paper summarises some of the principles we use when facilitating our clients to think through the planning and delivery of an effective organisation. Read More

Why CRM initiatives fail

We researched the most common reasons that CRM initiatives have not delivered the expected results. Some of these are reasons any initiative would fail, but we felt it was a useful list! Read More

How to test if an organisation’s fitness for change

Sponsorship effectiveness and organisational and resistance are the two critical factors in implementing change. This note summarises some useful checklist information for assessing the organisational appetite or readiness for change. Read More

Getting the measure of performance metrics

This paper explains why metrics are needed, the different types of metrics and how to develop a metric hierarchy to improve the performance of a business function. Read More

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Why CRM projects fail
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