Strategic Discipline Blog
Douglas A Wick
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Topics: Customer Feedback, leadership commitment, customer survey questions, Michelle Wick
Customer Satisfaction surveys should be part of your company’s regimented discipline to stay in touch with evolving customer relations. With respect to customers, Gazelles/Rockefeller Habits coaches like Positioning Systems suggest your business have your top line leadership team calling one or more of your customers a week to conduct a personal survey of four questions to stay in close contact with your customers and then report this information as part of your weekly meeting rhythms.
Topics: The Ultimate Question, customer survey, Customer Feedback, Net Promoter Score, customer satisfaction metrics, Customer Advocacy
Happy Halloween! It’s one of my favorite holidays! It reminds me of the responsibility parents face to ensure their children are safe and that in the face of receiving a deluge of candy they don’t get sick or over indulge in the very incentive the Halloween Holiday presents.
Topics: Accountability, weekly meetings, meeting rhythms, performance, productivity
All customers are not created equal. That’s one part of the message in How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In, by authors Rick Kash, David Calhoun. With some customers being more valuable than others it’s important to discover which are, and also to be aware of how your market is changing to understand latent, and emerging demands. The world has already changed to a demand driven economy. In order to be in the forefront and capitalize and even survive your business will require a higher level understanding of your customers and how to market to them.
Topics: Customer Feedback, Strategic Discipline, Demand Based Economy
The Rules are changing. As noted in How Companies Win – Prepare for A Demand-Driven Economy we’ve been moving from a supply-based to demand based economy. The book How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In, by authors Rick Kash, David Calhoun examines this and my blog specifically provides an example from the book on how McDonalds has successfully negotiated this change already.
Topics: Customer Feedback, weekly meetings, meeting rhythms, Demand Based Economy
Teamwork: Hidden Gem to Business Growth and My Personal Progress
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, Oct 21, 2012
Last blog, Is Good News Part of Your Business Culture, I closed with this quote, “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.” Patrick Lencioni, Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, One Thing, People, Organizational Health, Business Culture, the hidden gem in your business: teamwork, Achieve Execution Excellence
Is Good News Part of Your Business Culture? Biopsy Results
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Oct 19, 2012
My Wednesday biopsy results and most recent blog Four Purposes for Quarterly Meetings reminded me of the importance of good news and positive reinforcement in building a growing business culture. Recognizing accomplishments achieved at Quarterly Planning Meetings is just one step in the meeting rhythm cycle that offers good news and positive impact on your team. Daily Huddles include opportunities for every one of your staff to report on victories they’ve achieved each day.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Accountability, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Organizational Health, Business Culture, Good News
Having recently completed several quarterly planning meetings I thought I would share the four purposes for doing Quarterly Planning. In my upcoming October newsletter I’ll be reviewing some of the results my clients have achieved through their efforts to do effective Quarterly Plans. You can access many of Positioning Systems previous newsletters here.
Topics: quarterly meetings, Annual Plan, Organizational Health, top priorities
How Companies Win – Prepare for A Demand-Driven Economy
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Oct 15, 2012
Learning, Growing and Planning. It’s a crucial element of our Gazelles business coaching practices. Companies that continue to grow look at education, training and learning as a competitive advantage.
Topics: Business Growth, Growth Summit, Growth Summit. Learning, Demand Based Economy