The document provides reasons why most organizations do not follow a methodology to achieve operational excellence, which includes lack of expertise, commitment, focus, and treating costs as tactical rather than strategic. It also notes that top executives often only have backgrounds in sales, marketing, or technical fields. The document offers to provide more information about a methodology and free assessment to identify operational risks and mitigation.

1. Tips for Achieving Operational Excellence

2. Why don’t most organizations
follow the methodology to achieve
Operational Excellence?

3. An organization can achieve operational excellence by following
the methodology. Yet, most organizations do not follow the
methodology. Why not?
Here are some possible reasons:
•Do not have “how to achieve operational excellence” expertise
•Lack of commitment & Inability to see the payoff
•Poor execution
•Do not have laser sharp focus

4. •Cost is an afterthought – treated as tactical issue rather than
strategic
•Too much focus on New Product Development
•Too much focus on demand generation
•Most top executive only have Sales/Marketing/Technical
backgrounds
•Unavailability of step-by-step guide/reference book
•Myth: Not enough bandwidth (resources) to make process
improvements ??

5. If you want to learn more about a methodology to achieve operational
excellence, and/or are interested in a free operational excellence readiness
assessment which will identify your operations risk factors and how to mitigate
them, please write to us at bharat@shalshiv.com.
Methodology Benefits: Continuously improve employee and organizational
productivity, instill “execution” as a competitively-advantaged discipline, and
build an organization that endures.
Best Regards,
Bharat Desai
President & Founder