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Great framework and practitioner guide, April 9, 2009
This is a great framework and overview of the key components for implementing operational excellence, particulalrly in servce and knowledge worker sectors... whets your appetite for more detail with some gresat references. I plan to use it as a core introductory text to our "Journey to Operational Excellence" program.
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Make The Customer More Successful, January 18, 2010
This review is from: Customer-Driven Operations Management: Aligning Business Processes and Quality Tools to Create Operational Effectiveness in Your Company (Hardcover)
Happy customers will help your company be successful. But if you can make YOUR CUSTOMER more successful, the payback to you can be manyfold. Would you like to figure out how to do this? Chris Ahoy has figured it out. His book is based on his own experience in managing the physical facilities department at Iowa State University over the past 12 years. Chris and his organization have won numerous awards and have built a solid reputation for customer service at its best. He has documented his own success and shown others how to do it. The book is really about how to be an outstanding LEADER, describing in a logical fashion all the elements that go into that task. All the normal management buzzwords are present - organizational design, transforming the workspace, metrics, systems approach, and all the rest. What sets this book apart from the competition is the way that Ahoy has organized every chapter and every section around three broad themes: (1) satisfy the customer, (2) delight the customer, and (3) make the customer successful. You will have to read the book yourself to see how theme #3 is handled. This is what makes the book unique. If I were to criticize the book in any way, it would be that maybe the author has tried to be a bit too all-inclusive. He has provided "the shell" of a complete management handbook but hasn't filled in all the details of every aspect of that shell to make a true handbook. Considering the cost and size of the book, he couldn't! The book is only 272 pages long. But to compensate for this brevity in some of the areas (notably in Chapter 11 on quality tools) , the author has provided many useful references to point the reader in the right direction to fill out the shell for himself/herself. The book is solid, and the ideas that Ahoy presents really do work. He proved it in his own job!
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As Practical As It Gets For Any Organization's Attempt At Achieving Excellence, January 11, 2010
This review is from: Customer-Driven Operations Management: Aligning Business Processes and Quality Tools to Create Operational Effectiveness in Your Company (Hardcover)
As a Quality professional overseeing the day-to-day operation and long-term strategic focus of an ISO9001:2008-based Business Management System, I'm always looking for practical, real-world ideas I can use to enhance my organization's performance. As I have found over the years, there's no absence of material in the published realm addressing organizational performance improvement, some of it eminently practical and truly implement-ready, and some... well... decidedly less so. And because we're a service organization with no involvement with manufacturing in any way, I've found some material unsuitable for our somewhat unique environment. Then, almost out of the blue, comes a work like this, written by someone with real `street cred' and the actual award-winning results to back it up. Someone once stated `... Knowledge without practical application is useless...', and I think it fair to say that's an unstated subtext of this work. Some years ago, I had an opportunity to meet Chris Ahoy, tour his operation at Iowa State University, and experience, first-hand, what I think are the truly spectacular results of his efforts and those of his team. We spent several hours together afterwards discussing the theories and concepts that eventually came together in this book. I was significantly impressed then -- I remain significantly impressed now. In my view, what Chris has brought to the forefront has been driven by his real-world, hands-on experience, his inquisitive `how-does-this-work-and-how-can-it-work-better?'|continual improvement nature, and perhaps most important of all, his seemingly endless passion and enthusiasm for seeking excellence and modeling it in his organization and to all those with whom he interacts. Bottom line? He's the `real deal' -- a genuine `student of the game' -- and his insights documented here and elsewhere are ones I value highly. Without reservation, therefore, I recommend this book to anyone interested in developing a practical plan to help their organization achieve sustainable success.
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