Operational Efficiency

What to do if Two of your Teams are not Working Well Together

Scenario Your organisation has a number of high quality teams, with good leadership.  Each team functions well as a stand-alone unit.  However two teams simply do not work well together – for example your Sales and Marketing teams do not quite seem to mesh together, or your finance team and your operations team seem to […]

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What to do if One of your Teams Is not Performing Well

If you have concerns about the performance of a particular team, whether that is your management team or an individual functional team, this is what you should do about it.  Step 1:  Investigate First, investigate what is going on.  Establish what the issues are and what unhelpful behaviour is undermining performance.  This is akin to

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Corporate Culture and Operational Efficiency

It could be argued that the roots of our modern understanding of corporate culture lie in a study initiated to assess the impact of shop-floor lighting on worker productivity. The studies were conducted by the Harvard Business School between 1924 and the early 1930s at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company in Chicago.

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