
It’s another scorching hot day! It is incredible how much summer we are having! Our interest at going to the beach has peaked but the scenes on the news show way too many crowds and therefore infection risk so we will enjoy our garden! My kids love water balloons… filling them up is just as fun as throwing them at each other… and even the need to collect the empty balloons at the end to avoid birds eating them does not deter them!
How many of our work processes and outputs are so enjoyable that we don’t mind even the clean up of data or admin at the end?
How often do you get to see the beginning to end of things in your business? How much value does your business focus on specialists doing their bit or encourage everyone to understand the output that has gone to the customer? So when a customer request comes in, sometimes they hear this third hand and the value of influence diminishes and issues come back again.
There is a large focus on intrapreneurship and this should encourage the full value stream thinking.
It is important that this mindset is taught from a young age! Children who have no choice to learn, it is a second nature. Children like ours who are very fortunate take the process before it gets to them for granted so it is important to teach them this through things they enjoy at the right time! Baking cupcakes, waterballoons, do the bits that are fun and not so fun…
