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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Is Quality Control A Waste of Time?
If we roll back the clock just a bit, the support services provided by most large corporations lacked any formal quality control. You had people who were dedicated to performing a function, but there wasn’t formal training or process controls. … Continue reading
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Tagged change, Errors, Improve, Lean Sigma, Measure, Metrics, QC, Quality, Quantify, Reporting, Six Sigma, transform
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Outsourcing Analysis Part III: Building Your Toolkit
For the last two blogs we have been building a tool to help you evaluate your current sourcing decisions, in other words where your staff resides and how they are employed (employees, temps, outsourced, etc.) to perform your business functions. … Continue reading
Outsourcing Analysis Part II: That’s My Core?
In our last Blog we talked about how we source for a function, which is to say the process of deciding (and executing) the “how and where” a function is performed. In the last few years the movement has been … Continue reading
Outsourcing Analysis Part I: How Far Out Do You Outsource?
Everyone talks about Outsourcing, but much of the time the talk seems to treat all Outsourcing as the same, with teh assumption that all projects end up with everyone working in a call center in India. Outsourcing predates India and predates “offshoring”. In fact, on of the … Continue reading
Grime and Punishment: Why Best Practices Matter (Part II)
Yesterday we looked at CLI’s (Central Line Infections), a type of infection that results from the use of a Central line, the needle and flexible tube used to insert an intravenous drip bag. CLI’s are extremely dangerous and expensive, infecting … Continue reading
Grime and Punishment: Why Best Practices Matter (Part I)
We’ve had a lot of discussions on this Blog about metrics and best practices. Because they’re very important. Whenever I talk to colleagues who haven’t adopted a policy of best practices, they assume that A) It’s very difficult to identify … Continue reading
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Tail Of The Dancing Rat: Exposing Services to User Scrutiny
Metrics are all around us, all the time. In fact, some of them are pervasive we forget that they’re metrics. 20 or 30 years ago, if you were in the mood for something to eat you might go to your … Continue reading
A Cloud Story III: Leapfrogging Isn’t Just For Kids
Perhaps the most important outcome of Cloud migrations, the real game changer, is that Cloud services can level the playing field. This is not necessarily good news for service managers in big firms. Fortune 500 firms are largely in the … Continue reading
A Cloud Story II: Data With A Side of Miso Pork
Yesterday we spent some time going over a brief definition of the Cloud, some of its history and why everyone is scrambling to adopt Cloud services. Today, we’re going to take a practical look at what it means to the … Continue reading
A Cloud Story I: The Coming of the Cloud
We’ve all hearing stories about Cloud based services and how they’re going to change the way we live and work. If you manage services in a large firm you’re probably hearing little snippets here and there about Cloud projects that … Continue reading
