RJM Management Consultants

09/07/2020

Business Process Reengineering is a 'clean sheet' type of approach to organisational change management. Critical assessments need to be made, namely: Where are we now? Where should we be? What are the possible routes and means to take? How should we assess progress to keep an eye on the final destination?

A BPR effort needs to be coupled with a continuous improvement culture to sustain the change effort.

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02/07/2020

Business Planning is a must for every business. It is much more than the compilation of financial estimates. If done well, it is a transformational process, which should involve everyone in the organisation to drive the company from its current state to the desired future performance. This is achieved through well thought-out initiatives across all functions of the company.

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02/07/2020

Businesses need to undertake Business Risk Assessment to identify the risks / threats for their business, their probability of occurrence, the vulnerability of the business to these risks, the magnitude of the occurrence and the preventive measures to be put in place.

The Mitigation to the identified risks depends on many considerations, such as budget, capacity to implement, timing of action, duration and expertise.

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02/07/2020

The Covid-19 impacts on businesses should be a stark reminder that business owners must invest in Business Continuity Planning.

It is the process involved in creating a system of prevention and recovery from potential threats to a company. It provides a set of controls (risk assessments and mitigation measures) designed to keep a business running in the face of adversity, whether natural or man-made. The planning should ensure that personnel and assets are protected and able to function quickly in the event of a disaster.

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02/07/2020

Corporate innovation requires people-centred strategies and the development and sustainment of high-performance teams. This article outlines some of the predictors for such successful development, among which is psychological safety.

The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety, the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. Psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and sticking your neck out without fear of having it cut off — all of ...

29/06/2020

Interesting read. Five important perspectives of successful innovation management.

Innovation is a management process and a differentiated business competency enabling the organization to ride on emerging trends and beat down competitions effortlessly. How well the organization manages innovation is based on varying factors such as how effective of the allocation of resources; how...

14/05/2020

The COVID-19 crisis has created a remote working shock. It seems that companies’ infrastructures are better positioned than their processes and procedures in supporting remote working. The current slowdown of activity presents an excellent opportunity to rethink work practices and to re-engineer our organisations. Not doing so, will leave companies to be unfit for the emerging new world.

What this crisis taught us, is that the ability to adapt quickly to changes is vital: These can be technological changes, major world events as well as disturbed markets. No one wants to end up like Nokia, disturbed by the market. We all want to end up like Netflix, or like Zoom. To be the disrupter...

17/04/2020

Collaboration is crucial to drive new ideas and to address problems.

A well-known study in the 1980s stated that “only four per cent of a company’s problems are known to top managers”. Sound familiar? Well, this statistic sits at the tip of the ‘Iceberg of Ignorance’ and still resonates in businesses today.

The ‘Iceberg of Ignorance’ is a term coined by Sidney Yoshida in 1989. It was a really popular concept in its day and led to the popularisation of suggestion boxes and quality circles, among other things.

03/04/2020

Process innovation is another very important form of innovation. It is actually one of my favourites.

It has grown in importance with the advent of Lean Principles. It focuses on the improvement of existing processes or the development of new ones, with the aim to reduce costs, time, increase process reliability, reduce waste, employee satisfaction or enhance customer service.

Important tools that are commonly used in process innovation is that of process mapping and value stream mapping. These represent the process in a flow-chart form and are ideal to identify bottlenecks, time wastage and conflicts.

03/04/2020

Many companies tend to see innovation as only related to investments in product improvements. However, many valuable opportunities may exist in different parts of the organisation, customer interactions and business functions. Such opportunities can be discovered through Challenge Driven Innovation.

For years, organizations of all shapes and sizes have sought new tools to better manage their lengthy and complex product development cycles, reduce risk and accelerate time-to-market for new products or services. A variety of methodologies and frameworks have historically been used to achieve these...

03/04/2020

Product innovation is perhaps the oldest and most common form of innovation. It relates to the development of new ideas into new products or improvements in the performance and attributes of existing products.

Focus on product innovation are generally driven by changing customer requirements, by the need to address new markets, to increase the life-cycle of the product, need to improve quality / reliability / performance / look-and-feel, to reduce processing costs and to address defects.