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Quality Management Creating a Customer Focus Chapter 4

Quality Management Creating a Customer Focus Chapter 4. Figure 4-1 Achieving Organizational Success. Creating a Customer Focus. Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. Wayne Calloway, CEO Pepsico. Creating a Customer Focus.

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Quality Management Creating a Customer Focus Chapter 4

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  1. Quality ManagementCreating a Customer FocusChapter 4

  2. Figure 4-1 Achieving Organizational Success

  3. Creating a Customer Focus • Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. • Wayne Calloway, CEO Pepsico

  4. Creating a Customer Focus • There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy. • Alfred P.Sloan • President General Motors

  5. Creating a Customer Focus • 1 Leadership • 2 Strategic Planning ‘leadership triad’ • 3 Customer and Market Focus • 4 Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management • 5 Workforce Focus • 6 Process Management ‘results triad’ • 7 Results

  6. Creating a Customer Focus • 3.0 Customer and Market Focus • 3.1 Customer and Market Knowledge • How do you use customer and market knowledge? • Describe how your organization determines requirements, needs, expectations, and preferences of customers and markets to ensure the continuing relevance of your products and services and to develop new opportunities.

  7. Creating a Customer Focus • 3.0 Customer and Market Knowledge • 3.2 Customer Relationships and Satisfaction • How do you build relationships and grow customer satisfaction and loyalty? • Describe how your organization builds relationships to acquire, satisfy, and retain customers and to increase customer loyalty. • Describe also how your organization determines customer satisfaction.

  8. Creating a Customer Focus • How do we ensure that our strategic plans and our leadership focuses on what is important to the customer and the market? • How do we create an unwavering focus on the customer?

  9. Creating a Customer Focus • Why bother? • Business environment is extremely competitive • Today’s consumers demand quality more than ever before • Consumers are more willing to switch from company to company and not just to get a better price. They will switch for better service: reliability, accessibility, courtesy, and so on.

  10. Creating a Customer Focus • Why bother (cont)? • It is significantly cheaper to retain existing customers than to attract new ones. • Our competitors are gaining and it’s not getting any easier.

  11. Creating a Customer Focus • How do Customers Define Quality? • Quality is a customer determination which is based on the customer’s actual experience with the product or service, measured against his or her requirements--stated or unstated, conscious or merely sensed, technically operational or entirely subjective--and always representing a moving target in a competitive market.

  12. Creating a Customer Focus • How do Customers define value? • Value is the attributed or relative worth or usefulness of a product or service. • Consumers experience value when they benefit from an exchange.

  13. Creating a Customer Focus • What is the difference between satisfaction and perceived value? • Perceived value is the customer’s viewpoint of the benefits they receive when buying a product or service. • Concentrates on future transactions • Customer satisfaction centers on how the customer felt the last time he/she bought a product or service from an organization.

  14. Creating a Customer Focus • Value: • What was the customer looking for in a product or service? • What was their actual experience with the product or service? • How much money did they invest/spend? • Customers base their future decisions on the answers to these questions

  15. Creating a Customer Focus • We value our customers. • How do we measure what the customer values?

  16. Creating a Customer Focus • Effective organizations achieve a competitive advantage by carefully and constantly analyzing customers’ needs and by organizing and operating to meet these needs the first time and every time.

  17. Creating a Customer Focus • How will we know what the customer wants? • Ask them.

  18. Creating a Customer Focus • How will we know what the customer wants? • Ask them with the awareness of Feigenbaum’s definition of Quality.

  19. Creating a Customer Focus • Answer these questions from the customers’ point of view: • What business are we really in? • What are our principle strengths and weaknesses for competing in this business? • What do we wish to become in the future?

  20. Creating a Customer Focus • Capture the voice of the customer • Use the voice of the customer to drive changes in the way you do business. • Quality Function Deployment

  21. Figure 4-2 Translating Customer Needs into Measures of Performance

  22. Figure 4-3 The QFD Process

  23. Figure 4-4 Summary of a QFD Matrix

  24. Figure 4-5 Customer Requirements

  25. Figure 4-6 Rankings of Desired Features

  26. Figure 4-7 Customer Competitive Analysis

  27. Figure 4-8 Technical Requirements

  28. Figure 4-9 Direction of Improvement

  29. Figure 4-10 Operational Goals

  30. Figure 4-11 Correlation Matrix

  31. Figure 4-12 Co-Relationships

  32. Figure 4-13 Competitive Technical Assessment

  33. Figure 4-14 Column Weights and Regulatory Issues

  34. Figure 4-15 QFD Results Matrix

  35. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • We need an accurate understanding of what our customers need and expect. • We also need to see the gap between our performance and what the customer requires if we are going to properly target improvement activities. • We need to stay close to customer perceptions.

  36. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Effective organizations take a look at their processes from the customer’s point of view. They recognize the need to ensure that the process the customer sees is seamless, flawless, and easy to negotiate.

  37. Creating a Customer Focus • How do we translate customer needs into something we can use to improve the way we do business? • Identify all the reasons why a customer may contact or visit your company • Conduct research with customers to determine what they need and expect from each contact or visit. • Determine what changes are needed in order to meet the needs of customers when they enter our world.

  38. Creating a Customer Focus • How do we get from fluff • The customer is first! • To Fact: • A change in corporate behavior and the actions of our employees in order to support our focus on the customer?

  39. Creating a Customer Focus • Creating an organization that has at its core the ability to sustain an unwavering focus on the customer is not a task for a single department within the organization. • Involve everyone!

  40. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Leadership • Are our leaders willing to support the focus through their actions? • Convert policies to actions. • Are leaders holding people accountable for actions which support the focus?

  41. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Strategic Planning • Have we created and implemented a plan which supports our company’s focus?

  42. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Customer and Market Focus • Do we know what the customer’s perceptions are? • Have we shared this information? • How will this information be used?

  43. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management • Are we gathering, analyzing, disseminating and encouraging the use of information related to the customer? • What does our customer value? • How do we measure what our customers value

  44. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Workforce Focus • Does our reward systems reinforce behavior customer-focused behavior? • How do we ensure that our employees ‘own’ the quality of their work?

  45. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Process Management • Have the key processes supporting a customer focus been identified and improved? • Have we selected improvement projects that support the needs of the customer? • Focus on the pain: why is the situation undesirable from the customer’s point of view?

  46. Creating a Customer Focus • How? • Results • Are we using our business results to measure the gap between what we said we would do and what we actually did?

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