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SECTION - Focus & Money-Machine

Its a universal truth that focus is must for a sustained success. This section looks at focus in more than 6 different dimensions and how the multiple threads of focus need to be tied together to form a strong connect across the enterprise. We are introducing a new concept of 'money-making machine', which helps an organization to map the components, which are core to the way it makes money. This money-machine mapping is coupled with the strategy blueprint to define the Focus & Alignment Needs of an organization


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Financial Focus and Alignment     

Having Financial Focus is the fundamental responsibility to shareholders. Financial focus means that one is spending the money where it matters most, focusing on bottom-line, making investments which are aligned to the strategy, doing optimum zero-based budgeting and ensuring that the money spent is closely linked to the way an organization makes money.

Topics in this chapter :  Budgeting and Allocation Alignment →  Absolute and Relative Budgeting →  Investment Decisioning →  Keeping the lights-on → 

Process Focus and Alignment     

Process Focus is to ensure that processes which make most difference to companies priorities should be worked upon for excellence. A company's money making machine has interlinked business processes which should be the first priority for continuous improvement. Post-that, the additional processes linked to new strategic priorities. Every process does not need to achieve the highest level of quality, and every process does not need to be fully-automated.

Topics in this chapter :  Aligning process priority →  Aligning process performance metrics and management →  Aligning Process Capabilities →  Aligning skills and resources →  Aligning Process change readiness → 

Customer Focus and Alignment     

Customer Loyalty is critical to success but it is not synonymous to success. Customer objectives are subordinate to the share-holder objectives. Customer focus will mean that one will maintain focus on customer acquisition and retention, while being driven by the organization priorities and profitability objectives.

Topics in this chapter :  Aligned customer value & profitability matrix →  Prioritized customer matrix →  Aligned customer management performance matrix →  Customer Service Alignment →  Customer Relationship alignment → 

Human Capital Focus and Alignment     

The organization structure, the job roles, the job description, the job goals, the incentive & rewards structure have to be focused upon maximizing an organization's money making machine and it's top strategic priorities..

Topics in this chapter :  Resource and Skills Alignment →  Pay and Incentives differentiation on Roles and Skills →  Job Description Alignment →  Learning and Development Alignment →  Hiring Alignment →  Goals Alignment → 

Business Partner Focus and Alignment     

Today's era of focusing on core-competencies, has created a highly inter-dependent world where an organization is an ensemble of multiple business partners-vendors working in harmony to represent a complex operating infrastructure. The business partner focus includes alignment of contractuals, SLAs & metrics, business partner & vendor matrix, business partner process alignment etc...

Topics in this chapter :  Aligning performance metrics- Cost-Quality-Time →  Aligning behaviors and skills →  Aligning the contractual →  Aligning information pipelines →  Aligning processes →  Aligning Business Partner Matrix → 

 

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