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When the retail, operations, and finance teams began to construct the initial Amazon WBR, they turned to a well-known Six Sigma process improvement method called DMAIC, an acronym for Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control.1 Should you decide to implement a Weekly Business Review for your business, we recommend following the DMAIC steps as well. The order of the steps matters. Progressing through this metrics life cycle in this order can prevent a lot of frustration and rework, allowing you to achieve your goals faster.
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
Ongoing management metric Top Tasks is designed to be an ongoing management model for managing the customer experience. It is made up of: Top tasks identification Customer architecture design Task Performance Indicator (TPI) Task identification involves finding out what matters most (top tasks) and what matters least (tiny tasks) to customers. It involves: Collecting a list of all possible tasks that customers may want to complete. Refining this list until it is between 50 and 100 tasks. Getting in the region of 400 customers to vote on this list and choose their top tasks. Creating a task league table from the results; from the top tasks (the most voted for) to the tiny tasks (the least voted for).
Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as talking to customers every week. That’s a good start. But we also need to consider the rest of our continuous-discovery definition: At a minimum, weekly touchpoints with customers By the team building the product Where they conduct small research activities In pursuit of a desired outcome I’ve met many teams who are good at talking to customers. But they forget that the purpose of these customer touchpoints is to conduct research in pursuit of a desired outcome. Those last two lines of the definition are critical. We aren’t doing research for research’s sake. We are doing research so that we can serve our customers in a way that creates value for our business.
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
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