Posted by: Deb Miller in: ● June 15, 2012
Understanding how to handle customer needs and expectations is critical to success. From better service levels to lower costs to new, innovative product offerings, the pressure is on for organizations to go above and beyond. And, as consumerization continues its exponential growth, organizations need to find better ways to meet the ever-changing demands of their [...]
Posted by: Deb Miller in: ● June 7, 2012
How important is the human factor in driving meaningful process improvements for your business? I believe it is THE most important, and arguably the most difficult, aspect of any effort to improve performance. I recently participated in an educational virtual summit aptly titled ACMLive that considers what it takes to properly support human knowledge work. [...]
Posted by: Deb Miller in: ● March 1, 2012
How the people side of change impacts business transformation results People are the hardest part of business change. If you want to increase the chance of success of change efforts, you need to emphasize not just the quality of the technical solution, but also the role that stakeholders play in the process change itself. Despite [...]
Posted by: Deb Miller in: ● February 17, 2012
Business agility is all about being prepared for and able to quickly adapt to change. There has been so much written about agility from gurus like Peter Drucker, industry analysts like Forrester and Gartner, and the large well-respected community of process improvement practitioners that it would seem there is nothing new left to be said. [...]
Posted by: Deb Miller in: ● January 4, 2012
Have you seen the movie Real Steel? In the storyline of this flick, automation has replaced human fighters with 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robot boxers. The moral is “humans out, automation in” — end of story, right? Not exactly. As it turns out, it’s the right combination of human and machine that proves necessary for the [...]