Mastering the SCO Mindset

Our earlier articles around Successful Customer Outcomes and Next Practice talked about the importance of understanding what customers want, aligning the organization to these objectives, and delivering consistently. Here we want to concentrate on another element, one that is at least as important because it is one of the key enablers for making the changes [more]

Three Steps to Heaven

Successful Customer Outcomes – Three Steps to Heaven? Take the Lift Just the other day I was standing in the lobby of a hotel waiting for the elavator to arrive. I had plenty of thinking time while I waited, and I was reminded of a great recent example of customer-focused innovation. I don’t know whether your [more]

Delivering Customer Service to reduce costs, improve revenue and enhance Service

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else”. Sam Walton, founder Walmart. And never has there been a time when this is more true. Competition, globalization, conformance, complexity are all things forcing us to look at how work [more]

A very old question, a very new Answer

At a recent senior executive seminar we were discussing the theme of Successful Customer Outcomes (SCO) and one question which cut to the quick deserves more after thought. Picture a dark, dingy Victorian meeting room in central London, the sleet slapping against the windows and it is late on a winter’s afternoon. The bright spot? [more]

New Book >> Business Process Management

Participation required…
We are on target for the next book and are now seeking contributions from interested folks who feel capable of answering a range of easy questions related to Moments of Truth, Successful Customer Outcomes and Expectations. If you wish to participate, and of course receive acknowledgement for your contribution, then let me know at groundbreak@ bpgroup.org . I will then explain more 😉

Regards
Steve

Previous Books:
2006 – Customer Expectation Management: Success Without Exception
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2005 – Thrive!: How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer
http://tinyurl.com/5huun2

2005 – In Search of BPM Excellence
http://tinyurl.com/6cdo6e

1994 – An Executives Guide to BPR
http://tinyurl.com/6y2t9s

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The Evolution of Business Process Excellence

A theme of recent global conferences has been the mix of different approaches to improving business performance. This quest for business performance improvement as measured by reducing costs, improving revenues and enhanced service (also known as ‘the triple crown’) is a worldwide phenomena brought on by increasing competition, greater customer promiscuity, chaotic business cycles and more generally ‘globalization’. The pressure continues to increase and companies are seeking to extract every last opportunity out of their various initiatives and approaches.

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