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Value Leverage
The Value Leverage approach to creating a step improvement
in organisational performance.
Value Leverage is one of the most effective approaches
to achieving a fast, step improvement in organisational performance and
flexibility. Value Leverage achieves this by enabling everyone in the organisation
to work much, much smarter, and in a way that aligns their activities with
the overall goals of the organisation. It is a technique that greatly enhances
the effectiveness of every aspect of the organisation. By ensuring that
people view the organisation in terms of interlocking systems, it is able
to quickly change people's perception of their role within the organisation.
Value Leverage is a "Systems Thinking" skill
that allows managers to overcome the traditional organisational problems
by focusing on optimising the relationships between the
parts of the organisation. This enables them to build holistic solutions
that maximise the overall
synergy. As it is the relationships that make the whole greater than
the sum of its parts, it is in this, almost completely neglected
area, where
it is easiest to make the greatest improvements in the overall performance
of the organisation.
So Value Leverage utilises a unique way
of identifying the relationships between the performance of a system and
the critical, measurable aspects of the inputs. This reveals how to create
the Value Levers that will achieve the maximum level of improvement at
the lowest possible cost. In other words, Value Leverage changes the focus
from the control of the component parts of an organisation, to the control
of the interfaces.
One of the consequences of using the
approach is that it allows everyone in the organisation to work much, much
smarter in aligning their actions with improving the performance of the
organisation in an ever changing world. The reason for this is that people
can only work smarter if they have the relevant information, techniques
and understanding to enable them to utilise their untapped intelligence.
Few other approaches even start to address such fundamental issues. This
difference alone can account for substantial and fast, step improvements
in both performance and flexibility.
However, the differences do not end there.
Value Leverage is different to other approaches because;
- Typically, the various management techniques
have been developed by attempting to simply copy a method that
has been successful in other organisations. Value Leverage is based
on sound scientific principles, so that the solution
can be specifically developed to ensure it succeeds in your organisation.
- Other programmes tend to focus on solving specific
problems. Value Leverage focuses on creating holistic solutions
capable of simultaneously resolving multiple problems.
- Standard approaches separate the "hard" technical
issues from the "soft" people issues. Value Leverage integrates these
two aspects, because the hard issues often affect the way people
behave and vice-versa.
- Many techniques use analysis to reduce, or
break down those problems into even smaller parts, creating an
additional problem of trying to join up the separate solutions.
Value Leverage uses synthesis to create complete
and fully integrated solutions.
- Normal approaches often focus on what is going
wrong inside the systems, processes, departments or organisations.
Value Leverage focuses on what needs to be right at the
interfaces or joins between the systems.
- In other approaches, risk analysis is often
neglected because it is a completely separate part of the change
or improvement project. In Value Leverage, assessing and minimising
the uncertainty is an integral part of
the approach and is a key factor in its consistent success.
- The majority of methods plan, forward in time,
those processes or actions required to progress in the general
direction of the desired goal. Value Leverage starts from a precise
future goal and plans back, towards the current
situation. In this way it is possible to quickly identify all
the critical intermediate states or milestones
that are essential to success.
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