The superefficient company.

摘要: Most companies do a great job promoting efficiency within their own walls, streamlining internal processes wherever possible. But they have less success coordinating cross-company business interactions. When data pass between companies, inconsistencies, errors, and misunderstandings routinely arise, leading to wasted work--for instance, the same sales, order entry, customer may be entered repeatedly into different systems. Typically, scores of employees at each company manage these cumbersome The costs such inefficiencies are very real large. In this article, Michael Hammer outlines activities goals used in processes. He breaks down approach four stages: scoping--identifying process for redesign selecting partner; organizing--establishing joint committee oversee convening design team implement it; redesigning--taking apart reassembling process, with performance mind; implementing--rolling out new communicating it across collaborating companies. author describes how several streamlined supply-chain product development Plastics compounder Geon integrated its forecasting fulfillment those main supplier after watching inventories, working capital, shipping times creep up. General Mills coordinated delivery yogurt Land O'Lakes; butter travel cost effectively trucks stores. says kind collaboration promises change traditional vocabulary corporate relationships. What if you I sell products customer? We're not competitors, but what we? past, we didn't care. Now, should, says.