How to pilot a business

1. Increase sales
1.1. Increase salesforces availabity. 1.2. Increase salesforce activity. 1.3 Increase prices.
1.4. Add offer features that sell. 1.5 Advertise. 1.6 Increase product availability.

2. Reduce costs
2.1. Abandon non-profitable activities. 2.2 Gain from processing. 2.3 Automate, subcontract, delocalize.
2.4 Decrease labor costs. 2.5. Decrease costs of goods sold. 2.6. Decrease transformation costs

3. Optimize margins
3.1 Increase customer satisfaction. 3.2 Increase employee satisfaction. 3.3 Invest in projects and processes.
3.4 Select the business rules. 3.5 Select a strategy SFN/TFC/GFP. 3.6. Generate free cash

How managers use this site to manage simply

From the key words list,
1. Select the set of business rules that fit your situation, amongst the 9 sets
2. Select the business rule want to apply. Measure the indicators.
3. Engage indicators improvement projects

Identify and automate your Business Rules

Favorite business rules in 6 sets
  1. Sales
  2. Production / quality
  3. Resources / productivity
  4. Innovation
  5. Customer  / marketing
  6. Profit / costs
Examples


Increase our % of sales revenues from new products

Increase our % of revenues on the R&D budget

At least 5% of lowest performers should be out-placed per year

Abandoning 10 % of the least profitable customers

Reducing costs by 2% a year

Reducing travel costs by 30 % in two years

Aligning all sales points on the performance of the best sales point

Sales revenue from services at 50 % of product sales revenue

Financing new activities at 50 % with gains made from abandoning old activities

All managers rated AAA this year should be promoted within 1 year

Allow no one task outside a project or a process

Reduce the streamline index of your critical processes

To control the promotion freedom of your sales people, link it’s use to their bonus

Move back people to front by back-office automation

Each year, select and move out of your business, the 5% of your current tasks that add the lowest value to it

Never contract fix resources without a full control of their severance costs at any time

Protect your profit from the first purchasing step

Abandon budgets for scoreboards and internal business plans.

Allocate automatically and rapidly more resources to the best performers and less resources to the less performing collaborators

Keep pipeline value at 200 % of the sales objectives