Do You Know Your Enterprise?

How is the health of your company?

Many companies are doing well. However, they may or may not be operating at their peak level.

Does your company face any of the following situations?

•  Firefighting, delays in execution, inadequate accountability
•  ISO audits and staying compliant – viewed as extra work
•  Resources improperly used and wasted
•  Not achieving or sustaining maximum profitability
•  Not achieving or sustaining excellence in product and service quality
•  Top management unable to find time to focus on long term plans

Diagnostic self-assessment

A diagnostic self-assessment of the health of your company reveals the hidden costs that may be preventing you from operating at your peak. Start with a review of the results your company is achieving, and then, evaluate the challenges you may be experiencing at your workplace.

Current results

Review how your company is performing on profitability, customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

• Profitability – is it acceptable?
• Profitability – is it at maximum capability?
• Customer satisfaction – is it what it should be?
• Quality – is it at competitive levels?
• Quality – is it ‘Best in Class’?
• Employee motivation – is it consistently high?
• Cooperation between departments – is it high all the time?

If you answered ‘No’ to any of these questions, examine whether you are facing any of the challenges listed below.

Current challenges

Rate each challenge on a scale of 1 to 5. It is preferable to do this evaluation in a small group setting. Since every member would have a different perspective, a group discussion would help you arrive at a more realistic assessment.

Your enterprise today

Your self-assessment helps you know the current state of health of your enterprise.
An example is shown below. A chart like this is equivalent to an EKG – showing how your heart (workplace) is behaving.

A score higher than two indicates a significant hidden cost. These challenges sap vitally needed energy from human capital and contribute to decreased profits.

Find root causes for the challenges and take actions to eliminate them. As the intensity of these challenges decrease, overall results would improve.

Display and monitor your company’s health

Keep the latest chart visible to motivate you to decrease and eliminate these costs. Continue to monitor your company’s health periodically.

The blogpost on ‘Higher profits through better alignment and accountability’ describes APRS Platform – a process management digital tool – that is designed to address the above challenges.

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J. Nirdosh Reddy

Founder at Anaar

We at Anaar are now entering a new phase with the launch of our process management digital tool - the APRS Platform. It is designed to help improve profitability and excellence through better alignment and accountability at all levels within an enterprise.

We are looking to connect with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as well as Value Added Reseller Partners.

Over the past 30 years, it has been a great privilege to work with over 100 businesses in over 10 countries in such diverse fields as manufacturing, engineering, textiles, chemicals, information and communication technology, government agencies and banking.

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