Daily Management
Daily Management
Introduction and Definition
Daily Management is the system that provides the ability to manage departments, functions, and processes, wherein processes are defined, standardized, controlled, and improved by the process owners.
Important aspect is that the management should be done on a day-to-day basis. This ensures that daily jobs and daily objectives are accomplished strictly on daily basis. There is a perfect control system built into daily management which does not ordinarily allow any slip up on daily plans, activities and results.
Business, we know, is now so complex and difficult, the survival of firms so hazardous in an environment increasingly unpredictable, competitive, and fraught with danger, that their continued existence depends on the day-to-day mobilization of every ounce of intelligence. (Konosuke Matsushita)
Innovations/Breakthroughs and Daily Continuous Improvements
Innovations/breakthroughs are brought about in any organization occasionally or intermittently. There is a high jump in improvements. These high jump improvements are incorporated in the new practices/systems/processes. Then, after one innovation/breakthrough, there may be a lull. During this lull period and in absence of daily management or continuous improvements, these dramatically improved processes start degrading or deteriorating. And the processes become inefficient/ineffective. Lots of advantages of innovation disappear or are lost.
This is where daily management comes in. It insists on daily performance and also, daily improvements. It keeps on maintaining and further improving the processes. The fall or degradation of processes is now just not possible. Therefore, daily management is in fact a management imperative. You cannot do without it (you may occasionally do without an innovation/breakthrough).
It may not be as stunning or exciting as an innovation, effective daily management is the foundation on which maximization of advantages due to
Introduction and Definition
Daily Management is the system that provides the ability to manage departments, functions, and processes, wherein processes are defined, standardized, controlled, and improved by the process owners.
Important aspect is that the management should be done on a day-to-day basis. This ensures that daily jobs and daily objectives are accomplished strictly on daily basis. There is a perfect control system built into daily management which does not ordinarily allow any slip up on daily plans, activities and results.
Business, we know, is now so complex and difficult, the survival of firms so hazardous in an environment increasingly unpredictable, competitive, and fraught with danger, that their continued existence depends on the day-to-day mobilization of every ounce of intelligence. (Konosuke Matsushita)
Innovations/Breakthroughs and Daily Continuous Improvements
Innovations/breakthroughs are brought about in any organization occasionally or intermittently. There is a high jump in improvements. These high jump improvements are incorporated in the new practices/systems/processes. Then, after one innovation/breakthrough, there may be a lull. During this lull period and in absence of daily management or continuous improvements, these dramatically improved processes start degrading or deteriorating. And the processes become inefficient/ineffective. Lots of advantages of innovation disappear or are lost.
This is where daily management comes in. It insists on daily performance and also, daily improvements. It keeps on maintaining and further improving the processes. The fall or degradation of processes is now just not possible. Therefore, daily management is in fact a management imperative. You cannot do without it (you may occasionally do without an innovation/breakthrough).
It may not be as stunning or exciting as an innovation, effective daily management is the foundation on which maximization of advantages due to