So to have a successful business and to create a long term constituency plan, you need to analyze your business and where it can use improvements. You also need to analyze the tools you already posses that can improve the areas needed within your business. The way we analyze where we need improvements is based on what kind of improvements exist. Continuous improvements is the most basic: making some bigger, better, faster, etc. and striving to deliver your product in the best manner possible. Like many things, however, this improvement sounds great on paper, but the cost to do so is only best when kept low, which is a total redundancy because you want your best. The only time this is really effective, in my opinion, is when cost meets satisfaction. Another form is incremental improvements, which essentially is a slow process of fixing everything within a company, constant and a slow grind of improvement. In my opinion, every company does this in some form: whether you change vendors to changing types of plates to using a different kind of liquid soap in the bathroom, every company evolves slowly and gradually to keep cost lowest they can without sacrificing quality. The other type is a breakthrough improvement. Pretty much, this method is a rigid sudden change that isn’t gradual, but rather in effect as soon as possible. This is for companies that are struggling and need instant change to cut losses and fix whatever it is the company is lacking in improvement. Most of these types of improvements is based on urgency: the degree of what needs to be changed and how quickly the change can be implemented.
So you determined the types of improvements but its also important to notice what kinds of tools are your disposal for fixing these issues. The tools at your disposal are pretty much different ways to analyze data and ways to correct problems. Doing things like group meetings, brainstorming, public polls, and advertisements are basic forms to improve sales and productivity in general. Other types of tools are ways to collect data: like pie charts, graphs, different types of flow charts, and demographic charting. This display lets people analyze data differently, knowing where improvement can be made and also where their strength and weaknesses are. In my opinion, this is crucial to business success. Success is only defined as a constant necessary of change to attract new customers and keep old ones. The only way to do this is by analyzing data and know where your strengths and weaknesses are.
As always: a good comic to lighten the load.