Customer-Driven Operations Management: Aligning Business Processes and
Quality Tools to Create Operational Effectiveness in Your Company
The global economy is witnessing previously unseen levels of competitiveness, forcing
business leaders to contend with unprecedented challenges. No longer can companies seize
and hold a customer base by operating adequately. In order to enjoy a competitive
advantage, an organization must operate at exemplary levels of performance in every facet
of business and maintain that degree of excellence indefinitely. This is achieved through
careful alignment of operational systems and the use of innovative process management
initiatives. “Unless an organization is uniquely qualified to deal with its customers by
understanding its own strengths and weakness,” writes internationally renowned
operational management expert Christopher K. Ahoy, “it will be unable to understand what
is required to move from the current paradigm of doing business.”
In Customer-Driven Operations Management, Ahoy distills the most current
business theories and practices that will help you weed out and eliminate operational
inefficiencies and put in place the necessary metrics for providing products and services
better, cheaper, and faster than ever. Ahoy walks you through the steps of creating a
world-class organization, which include
Mapping your company's processes to target weak points
Realigning management systems from functional to process-focused
Setting benchmarks throughout the process to help quantify levels of success
Establish a system of knowledge management for the seamless alignment of teams and
departments
Improving process management using Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies
Create a sound strategic planning initiative to eliminate futuresurprises
With diagrams and figures to highlight salient points, Customer-Driven
Operations Management clarifies and simplifies the otherwise daunting task of enacting
major changes in your company's operations systems.
Christopher K. Ahoy is associate vice president for Facilities Planning and
Management at Iowa State University. An internationally recognized expert on quality
initiatives, he is responsible for having his organization become a three-time recipient
of the state of Iowa?s annual Iowa Recognition for Performance Excellence Silver
Achievement award.
Table of Contents
Ch 1: Creating a World Class Awareness
Ch 2: World Class Drivers: Attitude, Process, Tools
Ch 3: Where to Start: Process Model Diagram
Ch 4: Stages of Change: Reassessment of Values
Ch 5: Levels of Development: Process Mastery, Data Mastery, Supply Chain Mastery,
Innovation & Differentiation
Ch 6: The Customer: Customer Value Analysis
Ch 7: Customer Focus: The Three Customer Paradigms
Ch 8: Organization Design: A Focus on Quality Initiatives, High-Level Performance,
Productivity
Ch 9: Metrics: Measures and Drivers in Project Management
Ch 10: Systems Approach and Filling the Gaps: Systems Engineering & Gap
Analysis
Ch 11: Quality Tools: Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, TRIZ
Conclusion: Trends Leading into a World Class
Journey
288 pages, Hardcover