Management Systems: Intentional Development

Management Systems: Intentional Development

• Creates a culture of accountability, alignment, and agile decision-making.

Reasons for Learning Focus

• Consistency and Alignment: Provides a structured approach to ensure team activities and objectives are aligned with organizational goals, making it easier for leaders to guide teams towards the company's strategic vision.

• Accountability and Performance Tracking: Enables leaders to set clear expectations, monitor progress, and effectively measure performance. This structure ensures team members understand their roles in achieving both functional and organizational outcomes, promoting responsibility and continuous improvement.

• Empowered and Efficient Decision-Making: Access to real-time data and insights allows for streamlined processes, improved communication, and quicker adjustments, empowering teams to respond to changing organizational needs.

Management System - Defined

• A structured framework to coordinate, control, and improve activities, processes, and performance to create desired outcomes.

• Forecast the Work: This involves forecasting demand, defining resource requirements, and identifying challenges and risks.

• Plan the Work: Set goals aligned with strategic initiatives, develop a project or operational plan, break down tasks into smaller increments, establish timelines, allocate resources, and communicate roles and responsibilities.

• Execute the Work: Perform the work that was planned, monitor daily progress, collaborate with the team, and adjust resources as necessary to achieve goals.

• Evaluate the Work: Measure against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as daily, weekly, and monthly KPIs. Gather feedback from stakeholders on deliveries. Measure variances in metrics, and assess the effectiveness of the team and process.

• Improve the Work: Implement corrective actions to address gaps, train and develop teams, and use continuous improvement, or innovation tools.

Management System - Selection

• Short-term: Includes continuous or repetitive, and innovative (or unknown) aspects of a management system.

• Long-term: Examples include Hoshin and Scrum.

• Tiered: Falls between short- and long-term, offering flexibility.