What are you focused on?

How effectively are you moving forward?

 Developing the FOCUS for your organization and then achieving that focus in all your people and processes is never easy but almost always essential for success. Often this work is ignored or the need rationalized away. When done, it involves understanding your relative strengths and weaknesses, developing the needed strengths and then matching these with actions that help you pursue the best opportunities and protect yourself from likely threats.

Welcome to the introductory page of the People-Process Performance digital book. This digital book, on the AGILEdge website, focuses on issues, ideas and tools for improving how you do things. This is critically important for an organization's success because how you develop and deliver your products or services also creates the people requirement and the resource requirements (costs) yet most organizations don't focus enough on their processes and on the HOW.

Consider the following:

• The more unpredictable things are in your organization, the more the opportunity you have for improvement.
• Most organizations operate between a 2 and 3 sigma level which means they create many thousands of errors, mistakes and undesirable issues for every million opportunities. Studies have found that between 20 and 30% of your revenues at this level can be wasted dealing with these issues.
• These same studies have found even while it's going on, leaders of organizations are oblivious to the opportunity.
• A big picture focus on how each person and activity affects the cycle from initially producing a customer solution until receiving payment for it can itself product big savings in costs and create growth opportunities.
• While in the very tangible manufacturing sector, there are 8 types of waste to focus on, in administrative and knowledge worker organizations, there are 20 sources of waste that once identified can be removed or greatly minimized
• There are 17 barriers to effectiveness in organizations that when focused upon can lead to tremendous growth opportunities
• There are 9 sources of innovation, that when focused upon can transform many organizations.

We can guarantee you that by inter-relating your organization's strengths and weaknesses with the opportunities from a systematic focus on the 20 sources of waste, 17 typical barriers and 9 opportunities for innovation, opportunities and threats, that large-scale opportunities to improve costs and create growth opportunities will result.  

Welcome to the introductory page of the People Decision Excellence digital book. This digital book, on the AGILEdge website, focuses on issues, ideas and tools for improving the selection, development and leadership decisions made regarding the most important resource in most organizations, people.

Consider the following:

• People decisions are normally what determine the level of success a leader will have.

• Effective people decision-making is both and art and a science and increasingly can become more of a predicative science.