The Forces Driving Process and Operating Model Changes

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Mr, Ashridge Executive Education
Director of Ashridge Strategic Management Centre part of Ashridge Executive Education which is the executive education arm of Hult International Business School. Program Director for courses Advanced Organization Design and Designing Operating Models ( www.hult.edu/exec/dom ). Consultant to large and small companies around the world. Director of Sonae, Portugal's largest privately owned company. Author of more than ten books on business strategy, corporate-level strategy, the role of corporate headquarters, decision making, organization design and, most recently, operating models (Operating Model Canvas, 2017) - www.operatingmodelcanvas.com .

I keep a checklist of the technology trends to think about when redesigning processes or operating models. Things like “automation” or “digitization” or “mobility” or “social media”. I am always trying to improve my checklist, which led me to two recent articles listing trends to think about, one from BCG and one from McKinsey.

The BCG report “Twelve forces that will radically change the future of work” by Vikram Bhalla, Susanne Dyrchs and Rainer Strack has five trends that seem to be about operations (the other seven are about changes in customer desires or the workforce). The five are:

  • Automation: nearly half of all jobs in the US can be automated
  • Big data and advanced analytics: 2.5 quintillion of data are generated every day
  • Access to information and ideas: 7.6 billion people will be using mobile devices
  • Simplicity in complexity: 74% of managers believe that complexity is hurting performance
  • Agility and innovation: 90% of managers say that agility is needed to execute strategy

The McKinsey article “The Next Generation Operating Model for the Digital World” by Albert Bollard, Elixabete Larrea, Alex Singla and Rohit Sood only has five trends. The five are:

  • Lean process design: streamline processes and eliminate waste
  • Digitization: digitize both customer experience and day-to-day operations
  • Business process outsourcing: drive the next generation of outsources and offshoring
  • Advance analytics: provide intelligence to facilitate decisions
  • Intelligent process automation: to replace human tasks

What should we take away from these two authoritative sources? First, neither includes the big fad of the last five months Artificial Intelligence (although it underpins two or three of the McKinsey list and two of the BCG list). Second, there are some notable similarities and differences. Both include automation and analytics. BCG has access to information, agility and simplicity. McKinsey has lean, digitization and outsourcing.

Using these stimuli and my own experience working on processes and operating models, I have recently adjusted my list. The acronym is a bit of a mouthful – ALODSAMOSA – but it has an earthy quality, once you have said it two or three times.

  • Automate (including artificial intelligence)
  • Lean
  • Outsource
  • Digitize (both the customer interface and operations)
  • Socialize (take advantage of social media)
  • Analyze (collect big data with sensors and analyze)
  • Mobilize (enable people to work anywhere)
  • Offshore
  • Simplify (cut complexity)
  • Agilify (reduce the time it takes to change)

The question to ask of any process or any operating model is “Could we do a better job of exploiting the trends of ALODSAMOSA?” If we are not thinking about how to use these trends to improve our operations, we are probably falling behind our competitors in quality or customer satisfaction or cost.

What additional or different items would you suggest? What about printed manufacturing? What about “environmentalize”? What about dignity at work? And then there are age old concepts such as “specialize” or “empower” or “align”.

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