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Learn more at williamctaylor. Partner Center. If so, where are they? A taxonomy reveals your talent gaps and the kinds of people you must hire or retrain to fill them.
Leaders can also see how each potential team fits into the goal of delivering better customer experiences. USAA has more than agile teams up and running and plans to add more in The taxonomy is fully visible to everyone across the enterprise. No finger-pointing. The company has senior leaders who act as general managers in each line of business and are fully accountable for business results.
But those leaders rely on customer-focused, cross-organizational teams to get much of the work done. The company also depends on technology and digital resources assigned to the experience owners; the goal here is to ensure that business leaders have the end-to-end resources to deliver the outcomes they have committed to. The intent of the taxonomy is to clarify how to engage the right people in the right work without creating confusion.
This kind of link is especially important when hierarchical organizational structures do not align with customer behaviors. A clear taxonomy that launches the right cross-organizational teams makes such alignment possible. Taxonomy in hand, the leadership team sets priorities and sequences initiatives. Leaders must consider multiple criteria, including strategic importance, budget limitations, availability of people, return on investment, cost of delays, risk levels, and interdependencies among teams.
These determine the right balance between how fast the rollout should proceed and how many teams the organization can handle simultaneously. A few companies, facing urgent strategic threats and in need of radical change, have pursued big-bang, everything-at-once deployments in some units. The management team decided to move aggressively.
But big-bang transitions are hard. They also require a high tolerance of risk, along with contingency plans to deal with unexpected breakdowns. ING continues to iron out wrinkles as it expands agile throughout the organization. Companies short on those assets are better off rolling out agile in sequenced steps, with each unit matching the implementation of opportunities to its capabilities. At the beginning of its agile initiative, the advanced technology group at 3M Health Information Systems launched eight to 10 teams every month or two; now, two years in, more than 90 teams are up and running.
Big-bang transitions are hard. It may be better to roll out agile in steps. Whatever the pace or endpoint, results should begin showing up quickly. Financial results may take a while—Jeff Bezos believes that most initiatives take five to seven years to pay dividends for Amazon—but positive changes in customer behavior and team problem solving provide early signs that initiatives are on the right track.
Division leaders can determine the sequencing just as any agile team would. Start with the initiatives that offer potentially the greatest value and the most learning. SAP, the enterprise software company, was an early scaler of agile, launching the process a decade ago. Its leaders expanded agile first in its software development units—a highly customer-centric segment where they could test and refine the approach.
People in sales and marketing saw the need to adapt in order to keep up, so those areas went next. Once the front end of the business was moving at speed, it was time for the back end to make the leap, so SAP shifted its group working on internal IT systems to agile. Too many companies make the mistake of going for easy wins. They put teams into offsite incubators. They intervene to create easy workarounds to systemic obstacles. Testing them, just like testing any prototype, should reflect diverse, realistic conditions.
Like SAP, the most successful companies focus on vital customer experiences that cause the greatest frustrations among functional silos. Still, no agile team should launch unless and until it is ready to begin. It means that the team is:. Following this checklist will help you plot your sequence for the greatest impact on both customers and the organization.
Many executives have trouble imagining that small agile teams can attack large-scale, long-term projects. But in principle there is no limit to the number of agile teams you can create or how large the initiative can be.
It coordinates through daily team-of-teams stand-ups. At AM each frontline agile team holds a minute meeting to flag impediments, some of which cannot be resolved within that team. At the impediments requiring coordination are escalated to a team of teams, where leaders work to either settle or further escalate issues.
This approach continues, and by the executive action team has a list of the critical issues it must resolve to keep progress on track. Accounting for customers who join and defect within the same period must be handled consistently. Business-to-business firms will require rules for determining whether separate divisions or purchasing units of the same company represent one or multiple customers.
We realized that the only way to make the system work better was to develop a complementary metric that drew on accounting results. Few firms can quantify this today, so we have pioneered a solution that is proving effective in several ongoing beta tests. The reasons given are then sorted into earned versus bought categories. Our goal is to develop a universally applicable process so that every firm can use the same methodology, resulting in comparable reported numbers.
Tracking the behaviors of customers tagged as earned versus bought will help you determine their relative lifetime value, illuminating which customer segments and acquisition channels represent the best investments.
This customer-based accounting data is vital for implementing customer strategies such as those developed by our Bain colleague Rob Markey. Next, consider another hypothetical firm with the same reported revenue growth as Company A but very different sources of growth. Although the two companies appear to be on the same trajectory, Company B is achieving its revenue growth by aggressively buying new customers. That will almost certainly penalize current and future earnings and prove to be an unsustainable strategy.
By developing auditable statistics, brands will be able to validate significant investments in providing superior customer service. When he was just a teenager, Jay Hennick founded FirstService as a pool-cleaning company. FirstService began implementing NPS across all its businesses in When Reichheld met the current CEO, Scott Patterson, in , Patterson explained that he was keenly interested in finding out more about how NPS could help his business leaders build even stronger relationships with customers.
The more we learned about the company, the more intrigued we became Reichheld eventually joined its board , mostly because it seemed to care about customer loyalty as much as we do. It perfectly reflects the way we think here at FirstService. FirstService attributes much of its success to a customer-focused culture. All its local business leaders understand the enormous expense required to replace a customer lost through defection.
They also know how much more efficient it is to earn new customers through word of mouth from existing customers. Patterson estimates that more than half of all new customers in its Residential business that is, residential-community management are referrals. And because franchisees remain close to the customer, they can learn who made a recommendation and ask the recommender what turned him or her into a promoter.
FirstService provides a compelling example of how investors win with customer loyalty. When a Bain team examined all U. By tracking and publishing auditable earned growth rates, companies like FirstService will be able to credibly demonstrate the sources of their advantage and thereby help investors understand the sustainability of growth generated by loyalty. They keep asking for the real secret sauce behind our impressive track record so they can assess our future. In , BILT launched a mobile app to replace paper instructions with step-by-step 3D instructions for products requiring assembly, installation, setup, repair, or maintenance.
Manufacturers and retailers send BILT computer-aided design files for products, and BILT converts them into digital animations with voice instructions and text prompts. In , IKEA purchased TaskRabbit, an online marketplace that today provides access to more than , freelancers, to make it easier for its customers to hire a handy person during the checkout process.
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