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After 3 Years |
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ROI: Increase of $40 million in enterprise value for an investment of about $100,000 in OD and MD programs. All paid for from internally generated cash without any outside financing. |
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What was Done Over Fourteen Months?
This engagement lasted about fourteen months at the maximum speed the organization could handle it without disrupting the business. The management team members dedicated two to three hours per week to the program. This time was gained back to increase productivity and reduced firefighting within ninety days. After that time only occasional work was needed with new employees taking the video training as they came into the company.
Phase I – Month #1 to month #12 |
Implement Management Development (MD) Program to Upgrade Existing Team’s Capabilities and leverage internal people
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The entire management team was trained in management best practices using a “Flipped classroom” model where they consume the video at their own pace and meet weekly to review the material and do Q & A. The team discusses implementing what they learned that week and looks for a way to test or implement it in the following week. This program has hundreds of proven best practices of management and leadership embedded.
Phase II – Months 2 to 5 - Implement Management Cadence, Goal Setting (MBO)
Starting in the first month, a Management By Objective (MBO) system was set up with training and coaching for all managers. This system invented by Peter Drucker, The Father of Management, is shown by independent research to increase value creation in business 56%. As a result, all the following improve dramatically over 90 days and three monthly cycles of practice:
Phase III – Month 4-6 |
Implement Corporate and Departmental Dashboards to have Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), or Metrics for each Department
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A Corporate dashboard was designed by AirTight Management (this is art, not science) and the team took between one hour and four hours of video courses on dashboards depending on their level in the company. Individual contributors take 1-hour, Managers 2-hours and Executive level people 3-Hours of training total with some group coaching and Q & A.
Once the Corporate Dashboard was running smoothly, and the team knew how they worked and made life easier for everyone, a Department Dashboard was designed and implemented for each department (or Division in a larger company). This had the immediate impact of:
Phase IV Months 4 to 9 - Improve Technology For Competitive Advantage
When beginning the engagement, the web site and technology department was run by a very junior programmer. Someone with good technical experience by no management or even high level design and architecture experience. Essentially a bus driver running the national Greyhound bus company. Right person, in the wrong seat on the bus, as Jim Collins describes it in the classic text Good To Great.
Most CEOs without deep technical expertise cannot tell a Programmer from a Software Engineer, from an Architect, or a Director of Software Development from a Chief Technical Officer (CTO). All of these are vastly different in experience and focus. Like the difference between a CFO, Controller, Accountant and Bookkeeper. Each requiring three to five year more experience to achieve in the Carr ladder.
Every business has the opportunity to use newer technology to create competitive advantage. Technology can create more speed, save costs and even do things competitors cannot to create sustainable competitive advantage via trade secrets, patents or proprietary processes.
Ongoing Maintenance with Quarterly Strategic Planning and Management Sessions
Although this is an individual case study, the fact is that almost all small businesses need to do exactly these same things.
It does not matter what industry, because people are people and management and leadership are the same in every industry. So is psychology and communications. |
Notes:
All clients are confidential. The same results cannot be guaranteed for everyone, though it is always our objective to set up clients to grow at 50% to 100% per year and create a defensible market position to sustain this revenue and profit growth long-term.
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