There are many benefits associated with delivering important goals faster – Value increases, agility improves, fewer resources are needed, morale lifts, customer demands met etc.
Currently, the urgent is taking priority over the important. What’s important is not getting done fast enough!
Delivering important goals faster, presents a significant financial opportunity. The first improvement step is to select a guiding framework that simplifies complexity and promotes flow.
FAST is an example, providing the steps to deliver important goals faster and sustain improvement across all work levels. The financial benefit it delivers from selected initiatives is at least 40%.
Focus
- Find an opportunity and set improvement goals
- Identify success factors and select focus areas
- Create a linked scoreboard of KPIs and initiate tracking
Align contributions
- Analyse focus area reality and design solutions
- Detail projects and create a high-level roadmap
- Align role accountability and select success measures
Steady flow
- Set monthly focus area improvement goals
- Design tasks and develop action guides
- Establish a routine of sprints and daily actions
Track
- Track monthly results and performance trends
- Review progress, promote learning and recognise contributions
- Conduct culture surveys to measure impact on wellbeing
A high performing culture develop with repetition and success. Delivering one FAST project per quarter will transform annual results.