Processes

HANDY’S WORK MODEL

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption. Aaron Levie – Entrepreneur Charles Handy, probably the smartest workplace guru, said thirty years ago that work is fundamentally changing.  Companies own core intellectual assets including proprietary processes and intellectual property.  Handy then coined the notion of ½ by 2 by 3 rule of …

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CORE PROCESS RULES

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try to innovate. Sam Altman – Programmer and Investor All companies, even global corporations, have discovered they can’t be all things to all VUCANs.  As companies attempted to please different customers with a large variety of …

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PROCESS RULES

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement. Laszlo Bock – Author Work and process rules are guidelines, tips and tools that can lead to success.  Thomas Davenport, author of Thinking for a Living said: “To treat something as a process is to impose a formal structure on it – …

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PROCESSES @ RISK

Process is a particular course of action intended to achieve a result. Dictionary Processes are how work is done in many companies.  The traditional process structure was a pyramid with the Chief Executive Officer at the top.  Work flowed down and across the organization.  Technology, new business models, globalization, customer’s expectations, automation have created new business models and work processes: …

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VUCAN DRIVERS – PROCESSES

VUCAN DRIVERS – PROCESSES Old Norm New Norm Core process work Project work Fixed organizational structure Fluid & agile structure Offshoring Near shoring Buy in ‘Make or Buy’ Make in ‘Make or Buy’ Outsourcing to China Reshoring Chinese partnering and collaboration Digital Curtain with China Made in China Made in U.S. Transactional sourcing Enterprise focused sourcing Vertical …

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CORE WORK

In this 7P’s section, we discuss  the core Process  paradigm.  Process work means different things depending on context.  Process work for big companies involves core work processes that are repetitive, continuous, and controlled. Process work  involves developing new business models – new ways to solve a problem, add value, make a decision, and innovate a service.  For example, Amazon’s …

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ITINERANT PROFESSIONALS

The lifelong project career path is evolving inside and outside organizations.  We may be professionals, specialists, or craftspeople.  What characterizes us is we have portable and marketable skills.  We are becoming itinerant professionals.  A software engineer learns new software languages and goes where the market is.  A lawyer with special skills, such as environmental law, …

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LUDDITES AND WEB 2.0

Luddites were British textile workers in the early 19th Century, who protested the changes and even destroyed the mechanical looms that threatened their livelihoods. Some of the brightest soothsayers say the e-world including the Internet will change the fundamental ways we work and live much like he Industrial Revolution changed work in the 19th century.  …

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