Reorganize Now!
As if in a race against time, many businesses are reorganizing the way they do business in order to not just salvage what they have left after this devastating recession, but also to prepare for the new, emerging marketplace.
If we think of organizing in strategic and tactical terms, we might characterize them as:Strategic organizing consists of how you organize your business around your customers, products, markets and geography. Tactical organizing consists of how you organize your operations, principally resource management, production/service and logistics.
As businesses downsize as a result of reduced demand for their products and services, it requires at least a significant change in some tactical processes and at most, a wholesale change in both strategic and tactical organizing.
In order to share best practices, describe how your business has reorganized to survive in the current business environment as well as preparing to thrive in the emerging economy.
“When one door closes,
another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed
door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
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Alexander Graham Bell
I see companies being more conscious of efficient processes they use in their business. Whether it's manufacturing or service-oriented business, small changes to the work process can save dollars and make the work easier for the existing employees. I recommend that companies reward creative ways employees can save money and "think outside the box". Now is the time for them to put on their "imagination hats"!
That's being very Tactical!!
Bonnie
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Yes, the times "they are a changing". We have significantly boosted our capability in workforce development.
In the Summer of 2008 we revised our strategic plan (which we do every 3 years).In one particular division, we looked at the needs of our customers vis a vis our mission statement and found grants, and funding to support the customers initial emergence or retraining to reenter the work environment. The division director conducted meaningful demographic research about the geographic market and set goals about how best and efficiently meet the current and future needs of these customers. We continue to reset the tactical portion of the goals as the economy changes. And we recruit talent with expertise in the areas which best serve the customer.
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