October 15th, 2010
A key challenge for CEOs is cited as having unclear accountability, particularly when it comes to holding certain departments or processes accountable for a lag in performance.
In terms of goal management, CEOs need to translate their business goals into executable actions in order to have clear accountability for delivery. Without cascaded goals and knowing exactly how all of the levels within your organization are impacting business execution, you simply cannot know exactly where you can pinpoint the blame for lapses in performance.
For a smooth-running organization which doesn’t fall flat when it is faced with a policy deployment issue, consult the i-nexus Business Execution Suite.
i-nexus’s Hoshin Planning software solutions can help CEOs to hold certain departments – and even team members – responsible for a lapse in delivery, simply by making the process of attributing departments with certain processes and mini-objectives a simple and easy one.
It is also a notable point to make that the issue of having a lag in performance may have been preventable had systems such as i-nexus’s business execution software been in place beforehand.
This is because if employees are unaware of why they are performing their daily actions, they are much more likely to not really understand what their job actually is. With this misunderstanding and poor communication of job role will inevitably come inferior performance, which will impact on how likely the goals they don’t actually know exist are to be achieved.
If you are keen to identify cracks in the system of your organization for more efficient project and goal delivery, consult i-nexus today.
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October 11th, 2010
With key CEO challenges cited as being unclear accountability, poorly communicated strategy and poorly defined roles, the need for organizations to have a reliable and robust system in place for aligning and cascading goals is apparent.
Organizations need to articulate their goals clearly across all levels of the organization, and implement their strategies to include each and every single employee. This will also have the added benefit of increasing resourcefulness for better program management, and enable organizations to make the most of the each person that they employ by identifying how their unique skills can power goal achievement.
The daunting statistic that as little as ten percent of an organization’s employees actually understands how their day-to-day actions have any relevance to the company’s success will undoubtedly compel a lot of organizations to act, and serve as the driving force behind a strategy overhaul in their organization and a new focus on efficient goal cascade.
The Hoshin Planning software in the i-nexus Business Execution Suite can help CEOs to more efficiently cascade their broader goals throughout all levels of their company – from the department directors to shop floor employees – so that everyone is working towards meeting the same objectives.
Integrating Hoshin Planning disciplines lies at the core of the i-nexus business execution software, and will help organizations to take a breakthrough goal and then outline objectives and actions which will need to take place to make such goals possible. Organizations can then operate on a Plan, Do, Check, Act basis to keep tabs on which departments are accountable for which aspects of goal achievement, and how effectively they are performing in their roles.
Join multinational industry heavyweights Nestle, Alstom and Pfizer today and learn about how the i-nexus Business Execution Suite can make goal definition and cascade a simpler process for your organization.
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July 29th, 2010
Many corporate CEOs find they are endlessly grateful when they discover how spreadsheets can help them to effectively manage their business execution processes.
Not only are spreadsheets a great way of presenting data in a clear and concise format, but they can be easily edited by all of those given access to it; ensuring that all developments within the company are constantly kept updated and goals can be reviewed at all levels.
Unfortunately, using spreadsheets to collect data and consistently monitor and track processes is far from a simplistic process. In fact, it’s near impossible.
The fact remains that keeping updated on all developments simply isn’t feasible with just one spreadsheet, so an endless number are required for the different departments within the company.
Combine this with the fact that many different versions of the same spreadsheet can be created due to continuous editing, and the advantages of having one easy-to-use interface that offers easy editing and organizational capabilities becomes clear.
The definition, cascade, execution and review of goals is made simple to manage using the goal deployment software from i-nexus, and helps senior management to overcome the challenge they face when reducing the time spent chasing updates from other departments, and thus become more resourceful and spend more time driving actual improvement and securing successful business execution.
Our innovative goal deployment software is easy to deploy and can become fully-functional in as little as a month, and has been designed to support Hoshin Planning methodologies for companies already employing this discipline.
It is a robust software platform that makes conducting systematic reviews incredibly easy, and is currently used by global industry leaders to consistently reduce the amount of non-value added effort put in by CEOs and the senior management teams.
Proven to garner genuine results for organizations worldwide, i-nexus’s goal deployment software is a must-have program for eradicating spreadsheet misery.
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July 23rd, 2010
Any organization knows that having a systematic plan of action in place is the most efficient way to ensure that targets are consistently met, as the many different processes that take place in order for a goal to be completed are clearly presented in a specific order. If this is achieved, the purpose of each and every single employee’s actions becomes clear, and a distinct point of focus is established within the organization.
There are some inherent difficulties involved with ensuring that action plans are put in place – namely, making sure that they are actually relevant to the wider goals of the business as an entity, and are going to have an impact on business execution.
The central objectives of an organization need to be translated into action plans if goal deployment is to be successful. For this to be achieved, organizations need to cascade the company goals at all levels to maintain a solid guarantee that all processes are directly contributing to business execution.
i-nexus’s goal deployment software offers organizations the capabilities they require in order to plan and forecast the impact that certain actions will have on goal achievement, and therefore ensure that the actions of all employees in their organization are included in the action planning processes.
This goal deployment software gives CEOs and departmental management a systematic breakdown of where all internal processes lie in relation to company goals. This entails that employee actions can be effectively attributed to goal deployment, and certain processes can be easily identified as high- or low-performance.
This ability to pinpoint low-performance areas makes it incredibly easy for management and the company CEO to systematically act to repair failing process on a continuous basis; thus making visibility of processes, actions and performance a prime benefit to gain from i-nexus’s goal deployment software.
Tags: aligning actions to goals, Business Execution, developing action plans, goal deployment software
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July 19th, 2010
You will always have to plan ahead when you are in a senior management role, especially when setting targets and goals for your employees to aim for and achieve. Your business execution depends on everybody working in tandem and pulling together to ensure these goals are achieved on time, but, realistically, you also know that you can’t be everywhere at once.
Achieving higher level goals in your business execution strategy can be especially tricky, particularly when they are set over a long period of time and your aims are far in the distance. Long-term goals are usually harder to achieve than short-term ones as people will lose focus as the project expands and as more people are introduced the longer it goes on.
When people are added to a long-term project it can be hard getting them up to speed and can cause delays until they are ready and have a firm grasp on proceedings. Not so if you employ the right goal deployment software into your long-term projects.
When adding someone to your long-term project through our goal deployment software, it will be easy to bring them up to speed with how the project is progressing and what their ultimate role is in your overall plan of action.
Our goal deployment software will make managing your long-term projects much easier to handle and execute effectively, especially if you need a reliable, easy-to-understand program for your goal management.
Tags: achieving organizational goals, Business Execution, goal deployment software, long-term goal achievement
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July 15th, 2010
As a CEO of a large organization you need to keep everybody constantly updated with their goals and what they should be achieving for the month ahead. Tough, isn’t it? That’s one of the challenges of managing at the highest level – you will have to keep everybody constantly updated on a regular basis for successful business execution.
In response to this issue, management teams in today’s modern business world are discussing their business execution through the video conferencing method, in order to keep regularly updated and ensure that all team members are well-informed.
As video conferences can be held across various different locations and time zones, all of the relevant personnel can all meet online at once to discuss their goals and give regular updates regardless of their locality; thus making the entire strategy communication and updating process much easier.
When planning company strategies based upon information discussed or decisions made during communication on video conferences, organizations can use i-nexus’s software to easily capture any ideas that may otherwise become lost for later development, and use these to effectively map their strategy on an easy-to-use whiteboarding interface.
Our goal deployment software especially is incredibly useful for keeping targets up to date in one easy-to-manage online hub, and by collating all of your progress in our goal deployment software you will be able to make sure that everybody on a management level – no matter their location – has access to it to make relevant amendments as and when required, and will be able to understand their targets much more efficiently.
Our goal deployment software can help with your overall business execution strategy and help with the delivery of company goals. With its efficient whiteboarding capabilities, you can ensure that those all-important business ideas are always logged and contribute to goal deployment.
Tags: business execution strategy, goal deployment software, strategy mapping, whiteboarding
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July 7th, 2010
Goal management is an essential part of any CEO’s make-up. Achieving goals is something that is second nature to them, but CEOs are also realists when it comes to working practices. They know that, when it comes to business execution, not everybody in their company may be singing from the same hymn sheet as them or be instilled with a similar drive and purpose to complete a project as effectively as they should.
Their business execution strategy may be meticulously planned in their mind but that will mean nothing unless it is deployed effectively throughout all levels of the company. A worse situation to comprehend would be a few months into a project and goals suddenly become misaligned or incompleted. As a CEO, they will have to be charged, on top of their strategy at all times and perennially motivational.
At i-nexus we can help CEOs and companies with their business execution strategies with goal deployment software that is effective, easy-to-understand and far-reaching. Our software can help you to review business goals and complement your overall strategies – minimal training is required and you won’t need to install anything.
Our goal deployment software can be accessed at any time and any place with the added advantage of giving you the ability to upload your current spreadsheets, meaning you can seamlessly integrate current projects and strategies with the minimum of fuss.
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July 5th, 2010
It can be almost daunting to think that as a CEO, you aren’t sure of exactly what your employees are actually doing on a day-to-day basis, and whether or not their actions are having any affect at all on reinforcing the promises you are making to clients.
One company goal requires hundreds of actions to be performed in order for it to be achieved, and while this sounds like a simple point to make, adopting traditional approaches – such as annual budgeting and performance reviews – for dealing with this issue is useless, as these approaches simply cannot cope with the complexities involved with the goal deployment process.
The use of these approaches will result in goals and targets becoming misaligned, and barely any employees will understand precisely what they should be doing and how they should be doing it to drive successful business execution.
In conjunction with this, without the alignment of specific employee actions to company goals, CEOs will find themselves at a clear loss of accountability – that is, not knowing which departments are currently underperforming in areas that require high performance for successful goal deployment.
i-nexus’s goal deployment software directly addresses these issues and is designed to help CEOs define the precise goals of the organization, and effectively cascade these goals at all levels to ensure that each and every single employee is positively contributing to goal deployment and ultimately; successful business execution.
Holding employees accountable when targets aren’t met couldn’t be simper, as i-nexus’s goal deployment software enables managers to cascade goals within their department to ensure that all efforts are having a long-standing effect on goal deployment.
With the use of i-nexus’s goal deployment software, organizations can efficiently identify how the actions of employees in all departments can be modified to have a direct impact on goal execution.
Tags: aligning actions to goals, Business Execution, goal deployment software, making employees accountable
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May 31st, 2010
Securing a business execution strategy to help a company drive internal processes to achieve specific goals is something that the majority of CEOs are desperate for. Research shows that CEOs cite excellence in execution as their greatest concern – even above improved productivity, global economic performance, financial risk and adaptability to change. Good business execution is any company’s number one priority.
Amongst the software designed to identify specific processes that are required to realize company goals, is Hoshin planning software. This business execution software allows organizations to develop the resources available to them based on how they relate to set goals, and thus undergo strategic planning in order to produce measurable and realistic milestones.
Daily activities in the workplace can be controlled more effectively, and the processes performed by individuals can be easily linked to how they are relevant to company strategy. This is because Hoshin planning software makes use of a PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycle, which involves clearly establishing objectives and the likelihood that these can be achieved based on resources available. The newly implemented processes can then be measured in accordance with the expected impact they are assumed to have, and then a company can use this analysis to determine where amendments need to be made.
Hoshin planning software helps an organization to work on specific processes that will lead to the accomplishment of shared goals, which is not only more strategically effective for organizing a workforce, but is also a productive means of boosting the morale of your employees and encouraging teamwork.
At i-nexus we can map out the strategy and actions relating to each goal for an organization by using Hoshin planning software. As there are metrics associated with each goal, the ones that are not going to be achieved will be highlighted; thus allowing organizations to take appropriate action in good time.
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May 14th, 2010
Identifying goals is a somewhat simplistic task when compared to actually deciding how those goals are going to be cascaded to get desired results. What’s more, it needs to be proven that the necessary processes used to achieve these goals are actually having long-standing significance – not just a temporary effect – for driving business execution. Otherwise, a waste of resources is imminent.
For most organizations, having so many different goals and potentially fragmented ‘plans’ for how they are going to realized makes delivering on promises more difficult than necessary. It is delivering on promises that any company is based upon, and when an organization finds that they are struggling to show results for their shareholders, business soon dries up.
It doesn’t have to be this way. With i-nexus’s on-demand business execution software, companies can strategically and clearly define which processes within their organization are directly impacting on business goals, and thus amend their strategies accordingly to save resources and make use of only the essential actions needed to achieve goals. With i-nexus’s goal deployment software, the efforts of employees are gearing towards specific outcomes, so the management personnel in these organizations can relinquish control of their business with more efficiency than ever before.
i-nexus is a company specializing in providing the appropriate and significant solutions that businesses need to achieve excellence in business execution. We have developed a simple closed-loop process that cuts out all of the unnecessary actions within a company in order to define, translate, act, embed, manage and ultimately measure the specific impact that all processes within a business have on achieving those essential goals.
Tags: Business Execution, business execution software, business goals, Goal Management, goal realisation
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