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TheCleanAirTactics
Business Tactic
Explore & Discover - Identify New Market Opportunities
Inspect - Identify Our Core Competencies
Align - Identify Market Needs For These Core Competencies
Rearrange - Package Competencies For Competitive Advantage
Pilot - Confirm Market Case For Package (Use Clients Metrics of Value)
Specify - Identify Target Client Characteristics
Market Research - Find All Target Clients
Advertise - Communicate Message To All Target Clients
Sell - Create More Demand Than Can Be Met
Have Guts!! - Manage Sales at Capacity Using Price To Maximize Profits
Deliver - Exceed Customer Expectations Using Defined Processes
Reinvest - Use Most Profits To Grow Business
Create - Invest Some Profits In Innovations To Stay Ahead Of Competition
Switch - Bale When Profits Dip Below LCL Or Stays Below Desired Profit For 3 Consecutive Quarters. Start a new team.
Relationship Tactic
Explore & Discover - The best market opportunities are helping our present clients who get it. We must build trust so that they will share the information we need to identify their constraints and market opportunities.
Pilot - We should use our most trusted clients for pilots to protect our proprietary technology and to identify value.
Reinvest - We must reinvest profits to benefit our business partners.
Create - We need to innovate using all tools available. Partners are a great source of ideas. Encourage, listen and act.
Globalization Tactic
Intro - Establish name recognition using distributor(s) for products.
Beachhead - JV or acquire small engineering service company to start a beachhead.
Replicate - Plan and schedule for each major market worldwide.
Quality Tactic
Define - Identify System And Boundaries.
Low Hangs - Identify Major UDEs And Constraints And Fix using root cause analysis.
Interfaces - Identify Stakeholders.
Identify Stakeholders Main Quality Indicators (QIs)
Data - Select Measurement Which Encompass As Many QIs As Possible
CI - Constantly Improvement Of Processes By Those In The System (Self Directed Teams).
Innovation - Management Uses Skunkworks For Paradigm Shift Or Process Reinvention
New Team Tactic
We use the W. L. Gore & Associates Amoeba Principle for New Teams. See: Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
In addition to a champion a team needs:
Entrepreneur or Business Leader
- Technical Leader
- Sales or Market Leader
- D,I,S and C bases covered
Since team members can wear several hats the team can start with as few as one full time and 2 part-time members.
Day to Day for Everyone
Understand theCleanAirTactics.
Be constantly aware that everyones job is to know and support the steps in the Tactics.
Provide feedback for all steps in theCleanAirTactics.