¶ … Agenda by Michael Hammer The pioneer of reengineering business concept and author of Reengineering the Corporations, Michael Hammer now come up with the new concept of economy that has transformed the tradition supplier driven economy to more customer-dominated era. In his book The Agenda he has highlighted industrialized economies are setting new standards of doing business and giving powerful position to customers. Customers are no longer committed to one vendor due to technological changes and shortened product life cycle. Therefore it has now become important for all businesses to learn new agenda of doing business in the customer driven economies. The book presents significant nine agendas for doing business distributed in different chapters as the book proceeds.

The first agenda for conducting the business is Running the business for customers. To do so business must adopt easy to do business with strategy. This means that creating convenience for customers to do business with you, making it effort less to contact you and building a relationship which is painless. This strategy is applied in the business through removing barriers in the way customer keeps the contact with your business, customizing different classes of customers through market segmentation, maintain updated customer database to know what they will ask for before they actually do, make customer feel comfortable for doing business with you, get customer involved in the project and measure the things that customer care.

The second agenda discussed is Giving customer what they want. This means adding more value for your customer. When customer finds your business to be valuable they are willing to pay what company wants and you can earn more profit on that. More Value Addition is the strategy in creating customer value. Practically it is achieved by providing solution instead of just product or service, analyze...

Customer is more concerned with the value created by the company. Process in simple terms is described as organized group working together to create value for the customer. Working together means all the work functions of the organizations are assembled to the common corporate goals. In practical terms good process or workable process is the one that is technologically advanced, customer focused, holistic and flows through an organized design on working. The process approach is focused on the collectivism and developing the skills and abilities of the work groups rather than individuals.
The fourth agenda is Creating order where chaos reigns. Author in this agenda defines the parameter for success which is built on coordination and discipline. Business activities must fit together and done in the right order. The work order must be shifted from ad hoc to more planned and disciplined. When the work functions are in the form of groups it doesn't decrease or effect the creativity of individual on the contrary it has been observed that individual skills are enhanced when working as a team.

The fifth agenda talk about Measure like you mean it. The measurement part to be involved in management not just limited to the financial aspect of the company. In today's business world shareholders and customers are more concerned about improving performances. Measurement system should be of such that it identifies the inefficiencies in the system. People must be aware what things are measured and management must apply business models in their measurement process. Measure designed must be objective, timely, easy to calculate and easy to understand.

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