The quest for the Triple Crown – Four ways to transform process for success forever

The quest for the Triple Crown – Four ways to transform process for success forever

There’s been much discussion about the Successful Customer Outcome across several LinkedIn threads recently
(see http://linkd.in/DanielaProcess, http://linkd.in/ProcessDick, http://linkd.in/ProcessGeoff, and http://linkd.in/ProcessNic)
however that isn’t the only way to move processes Outside-In. In fact there are FOUR tried, tested and proven approaches to simultaneously reduce costs, improve revenues and enhance customer service (winning the Triple Crown).
You can explore this territory by visiting the following mini articles. Next week we’ll feature several recent webcasts.

Articles:
Part 1: Understand and apply process diagnostics
| http://bit.ly/ProcessDiagnostics |

Part 2: Successful Customer Outcomes
| http://bit.ly/SuccessfulCustomer |

Part 3: Reframing process for an Outside-In world
| http://bit.ly/ReframingProcess |

Part 4: Rethinking the business you are in
| http://bit.ly/WhatBusinessRUin |

 

If you are already qualified as a Certified Process Professional you should already have completed the Outside-In Strategic Matrix® (OI-SM) which complements the articles. Try it out for yourself and see how Outside-In you actually are.

Next week THREE webcasts to as we travel deeper into Outside-In.

Best Buy is a poster boy of Outside-In, Are they done yet?

Although Best Buy gets its fair share of customer complaints online, it responds to them in a different way due to its Outside-In philosophy. Take Twelpforce. This system lets Best Buy employees see and respond to Best Buy-related issues that Twitter uses express, and over 2,500 people are taking part. The Twelpforce system brings together several groups: customer service representatives, in-store salespeople (called blueshirts), and the Geek Squad, technicians that visit homes to render technical assistance.

To see Twelpforce in action, consider this: Earlier in the year, Josh Korin purchased an iPhone and insurance plan from a Chicago Best Buy. His iPhone stopped working one day, and the store's staff gave him a loaner BlackBerry to replace it. He didn't want this -- especially since he bought insurance -- so he tweeted his disapproval. He did this on the weekend, but even so, customer service representative Coral Biegler tweeted back at him. The very next day, she had managed to find a replacement iPhone for him. From then on, Korin tweeted about how impressed he was with the service he received from Best Buy. His wife did too -- and she has over 3,000 people following her on Twitter. Twelpforce grew out of Best Buy's commitment to technological innovation from employees.

The idea was the brainchild of Gary Koelling, a member of Best Buy's marketing group and a social-media guru. Ben Hendrington, a technology staffer in the e-commerce division, spent a week thinking about how he could harness the Google cloud computing platform to create a Twitter app to serve many employees at once. Marketing manager John Bernier was in charge of the project and successfully managed legal challenges like labor laws. The leaders at Best Buy support innovation, no matter where it originates inside the organization. CMO Barry Judge places a strong emphasis on innovations such as Twelpforce. We are nearly constantly in a half-baked mode, as for ideas, Judge states. Half-baked ideas let individuals [on the inside as well as the outside] offer you feedback. There is always an education going on in Judges department of marketing. If you're not inquisitive, you will not last for very long in marketing, he stated. You must have some that aren't successful to notice that.

The results of this mindset are easy to see in Best Buys marketing. One way Judge does this is posting television commercials on his blog prior to airing them. In one instance, commenters beyond the company expressed displeasure claiming a lack of sensitivity in a commercial that tells how a Blue Shirt assisted a customer in the armed forces. There was no airing of the commercial. Another innovation from Best Buy is opening the programming interfaces on its site, www.bestbuy.com, which lets other sites know about things like changes in price. The staffers in marketing made up all of these activities.
They were all risky. And they all proceeded.

Sources of Information for Advanced BPM aka Outside-In

If you wish to read and listen more on these themes the following references are useful.
Join the community discussing these issues, challenges and opportunities.

Community and social networking	Networking	http://bit.ly/I0tvw
Customer Capitalization – Roger Martin, Dean of Faculty, Rottman Business School	Article	HBReview, Feb 2010
Don’t give customers what they think they want Steve Towers	Article	http://bit.ly/3xUIn4
Evolution of Approaches BP Group	Research	http://bit.ly/Fw5Kv
Outside-In Interview with Blog Radio	Podcast	Outside-In (15 mins)
The Best Performing companies Millward Optimoor	Research	http://bit.ly/uAyVW

Outside-In overview Interview - Key issues, challenges, opportunities and case studies