This guide to achieving sustainable world-class performance provides guiding principles to senior executives and best practices to managers that, if fully embraced and implemented correctly, will transform most any firm into an organization capable of dominating its industry throughout the 21st Century.
While there are many best practices that firms should consider in their efforts to continuously improve, there are seven best practices that are indispensable in this era of rapid change, increasing customer demands, and intense global competition. These seven best practices address the people, processes, and technology elements of which every enterprise is comprised and without them firmly in place, organizations will eventually flounder. When driven by top management, instituting 15 business principles based on these seven best practices will transform an organization from mediocrity to a powerhouse referred to as The Best Practices Enterprise™. These proven principles and practices are supported by nearly 50 real examples and excerpts from actual projects to demonstrate how multiple organizations have institutionalized these best practices.
Purchase Order Management Best Practices brings together the field’s latest advances and gives business professionals a comprehensive framework for lowering costs, improving efficiency, eliminating non-value added activities, and optimizing the transformation program for the POM process. It offers practical, proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of POM process redesign: mapping the existing process, intelligently leveraging new technologies, building a strategy for strengthening the relationship with suppliers, identifying comprehensive related metrics, and much more, including industry success stories and lessons learned.
Although POM process transformation is a hot topic, there is not a single book that focuses on the recipe of success for a POM transformation program. This text fills the gap by providing a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organizations to implement the POM transformation program successfully.
Reveals how to improve top-line and bottom-line performance by transforming typical strategic planning methods to a program-centric strategic planning approach
Delineates how IT environments can be designed and built to reach optimal levels of reliable responsiveness and speed-to-market, while maximizing returns on technology investments
Demonstrates how portfolio-based project management reduces risk and minimizes costs
Illustrates how diversity and inclusion programs and results-focused communication practices can be used to increase effectiveness, profitability and shareholder value
Discusses ways to extend standard business redesign practices to improve quality
Covers how to achieve superior execution with an integrated approach to continuous employee improvement
WAV includes free downloadable tips for effective Best Practices Implementation and Business Transformation
Chapter 1 : The Best Practices Enterprise™ : A Vision for the New Era
Chapter 2 : Best Practices Business Principles
Chapter 3 : Program : Centric Strategic Planning
Chapter 4 : Resilient IT Architecture Design
Chapter 5 : Portfolio : Based Project Management
Chapter 6 : Uninterrupted Business Redesign
Chapter 7 : Results : Focused Communications
Chapter 8 : Cross : Cultural Workforce Inclusion
Chapter 9 : Continuous Employee Improvement
Appendix A : Sample Opportunities Identification Documents
Appendix B : Sample RITA Target Definition Document
Appendix C : Sample Value Chain Case Study
Appendix D : Sample CEI Baseline Report
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