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OperationsProcess / methodFeedback workflow boardWhat states and transitions make feedback processing visible and accountable?
StrategyProcess / methodBusiness process redesign (Hammer and Champy)How can business process redesign (hammer and champy) support strategic choice or positioning?Use BPR when benchmarking reveals a serious disadvantage in cost, quality, service or speed and incremental process improvement is unlikely to close it.
OperationsProcess / methodProcess or machine downtime levelHow can process or machine downtime level improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Answer the performance question: “When required, how reliably are our machines or processes available?”
OperationsProcess / methodProcess waste levelHow can process waste level improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Answer the performance question: “Where does this process consume effort without advancing a required outcome?”
People & OrganisationChecklist / diagnosticLightweight-process maturity checkIs a process absent, appropriately lightweight, or heavier than the problem requires?
Organisational behaviourKPI / metricInterview process health metricsDoes a structured interview process collect sufficient job-relevant evidence and reach timely, documented decisions?
FinanceFramework / modelCash flow analyticsHow can cash flow analytics support strategic choice or positioning?Use cash flow analytics routinely to monitor the current position and forecast whether the organisation can operate without a funding interruption. A forward view makes seasonal peaks, delayed receipts, debt payments and investment commitments visible early enough to manage them.
OperationsProcess / methodIssue Escalation ProcessHow can issue escalation process improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Establish the process before program execution and use it whenever an issue exceeds delegated authority, tolerance, resources or cross component scope.
OperationsProcess / methodCreative asset approval workflowHow should creative work move from brief through production, checks, approval, release, and archive?
FinanceFramework / modelDiscounted cash flow (DCF) and net present value (NPV)How can discounted cash flow (dcf) and net present value (npv) support strategic choice or positioning?Use DCF and NPV in capital budgeting and investment appraisal to decide:
OperationsTemplate / formWorkflow design canvasHow should an intake-to-closure workflow define states, ownership, service levels, and controls?
People & OrganisationProcess / methodLow-performance management processHow should expectations, evidence, coaching, support, decisions, and documentation progress over time?
MarketingProcess / methodProduct naming processHow should a team prepare, diverge, validate, approve, and socialize a name?
People & OrganisationFramework / modelPeople-process maturity ladderWhen should a company add structure to leveling, promotion, feedback, and compensation decisions?Use the people process maturity ladder when people working on organization and culture are using different mental models for stage, risk, and minimum process, and that difference is changing choices or coordination.
OperationsKPI / metricFeedback operations metricsDoes product feedback move from intake to acknowledgment, synthesis, decision, and closure without losing trust or learning?
FinanceTheory / principleReal options theoryWhen and how should real options theory be applied?Use real options reasoning when outcomes are uncertain, management can respond to future information, the response has material economic value and the initial decision affects whether that flexibility remains available. It is especially useful when a conventional discounted cash flow or net present value calculation treats management as passive and therefore misses the value of staged commitment.
OperationsFramework / modelValue stream mappingHow can value stream mapping improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use value stream mapping to reduce lead time, expose waste and coordinate improvement across functional boundaries. A map records process steps, material movement, information flow and operating data such as inventory, cycle time and batch size with common symbols (see Rother and Shook, 2003). The current state map supplies evidence for designing a leaner future state.
OperationsFramework / modelKaizen/GembaHow can kaizen/gemba support strategic choice or positioning?Use kaizen for recurring quality, flow, safety, inventory, cost and lead time problems that can be improved through repeated learning. Begin at gemba with the people who perform and experience the process.
AccountingProcess / methodThe accrual method in accountingHow can the accrual method in accounting improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use accrual accounts to understand the economic performance of a business over a reporting period.
OperationsFramework / modelSensor dataHow can sensor data improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use sensors when a decision depends on a condition that can be measured reliably and the benefit justifies deployment, maintenance, security and data governance.
InnovationTemplate / formInformation Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®)How can information technology infrastructure library (itil®) support strategic choice or positioning?Use ITIL when digital services depend on repeatable management practices across people, partners, technology and workflows. It is relevant when an organisation needs to improve service quality, clarify ownership, manage incidents and changes, align technology work with business outcomes or create a common service management language.
OperationsFramework / modelSupply chain analyticsWhen and how should supply chain analytics be applied?The method applies to services as well as products, but physical flows usually create the clearest need. Review a dynamic supply chain at least monthly. A stable network with few material changes may justify a six month cycle, while operational alerts and critical risks should be monitored more frequently.
OperationsFramework / modelJust-in-time productionHow can just-in-time production support strategic choice or positioning?Use JIT to improve flow, reduce working capital and reveal bottlenecks where demand is sufficiently visible and processes can be stabilised.
OperationsTemplate / formStandard operating procedureHow should a repeatable process define purpose, boundaries, responsibilities, steps, risks, escalation, and references?
OperationsTemplate / formImplementation reviewIs a solution ready to implement across product, process, systems, people, and controls?
People & OrganisationTemplate / formVP Product role scorecardWhat must a VP Product deliver in strategy, talent, discipline, and cross-company process?
OperationsTemplate / formLaunch retrospectiveWhat should a team learn from launch outcomes and the readiness process?
People & OrganisationTemplate / formCandidate offer-and-close planHow can a team coordinate a clear, fair, and timely offer process?
Organisational behaviourMatrix / portfolioRole-to-jobs mapWhich recurring jobs should each role perform across an end-to-end workflow?
FinanceTemplate / formPricing readiness checklistHave product, finance, legal, operations, billing, sales, and customer implications of a price been addressed?
People & OrganisationChecklist / diagnosticPersonal operating-system reviewDo a leader's routines, information flows, decisions, and relationships support effective work?
StrategyFramework / modelCreating value from mergers, acquisitions and alliancesHow can creating value from mergers, acquisitions and alliances support strategic choice or positioning?Use this assessment for every proposed merger, acquisition or alliance, from initial rationale through valuation and integration planning.
InnovationFramework / modelStage gate new product developmentHow can stage gate new product development support strategic choice or positioning?Use a stage gate process to manage the development and launch of products, services, technologies or substantial product changes when:
StrategyFramework / modelGap analysisHow can gap analysis support strategic choice or positioning?To identify and improve an important area of underperformance.
MarketingFramework / modelCompetitive intelligenceHow can competitive intelligence support strategic choice or positioning?Use CI to assess relative market strengths, weaknesses, intentions and vulnerabilities.
StrategyProcess / methodProduct life cycleHow can product life cycle support strategic choice or positioning?Develop a long term product and portfolio strategy.
OperationsFramework / modelBenchmarkingHow can benchmarking support strategic choice or positioning?To establish evidence based targets for business and marketing KPIs.
StrategyFramework / modelAssessing customer purchasing criteriaHow can assessing customer purchasing criteria support strategic choice or positioning?Whenever a strategy, proposition or competitive assessment must begin with evidence about what customers value.
StrategyFramework / modelStructured interviewingHow can structured interviewing support strategic choice or positioning?Use structured interviews in most strategy development processes unless a recent, relevant customer study already answers the questions. Do not burden customers by repeating research without a decision need.
StrategyFramework / modelOutsourcingHow can outsourcing support strategic choice or positioning?Consider outsourcing when an external provider may lower unit costs, raise service standards, supply scarce expertise, accelerate access to technology or release internal attention for strategically distinctive work. Use expanded throughout the 2000s and 2010s, including in government, but prevalence is not evidence that it suits a particular activity.
OperationsFramework / modelValue chainHow can value chain support strategic choice or positioning?Identify how product or service value is created through the operating system.
Organisational behaviourTemplate / formTick-box and high-performance teamsHow can tick-box and high-performance teams improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use this model as a periodic reality check when a team seems busy with compliance but the quality, speed or usefulness of its work is not improving.
FinanceFramework / modelCapital budgetingWhen and how should capital budgeting be applied?To decide whether a proposed long term investment is expected to create value.
Organisational behaviourFramework / modelOverhead value analysisHow can overhead value analysis improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Use OVA when overhead has grown without a clear link to organisational priorities, when support services no longer meet internal customer needs, or when financial pressure requires a disciplined redesign. It can be preventive or corrective. Because the analysis may affect roles, workload and employment, establish transparent decision criteria, worker consultation and implementation support at the outset.Organisational behaviourFramework / modelBenchmarkingHow can benchmarking improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?The design of a benchmark should follow the decision it needs to support. Typical questions include:
OperationsFramework / modelSix sigmaHow can six sigma support strategic choice or positioning?Use six sigma when an organisation needs to identify the causes of poor operational performance, improve process reliability and translate fewer defects into customer or financial value. A project should have a defined business case, but the claim that management should reject any initiative without at least $175 000 in savings is a legacy rule of thumb, not a universal threshold. Scale the expected benefit to the process, organisation and risk involved.
OperationsTheory / principleOverall equipment effectiveness (OEE)When and how should overall equipment effectiveness (oee) be applied?Answer the key performance question: “To what extent is our operating equipment effective?”
OperationsFramework / modelFirst contact resolution (FCR)How can first contact resolution (fcr) improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?Answer the key performance question: “How effectively are we resolving our customer queries at first contact?”