The Organization function of time

The challenge is to realize our vision with great interest and intensity that we generate.

Peter Block

If you plan to reinvent itself, embark on the benefits of reengineering to restructure its administrative units, to face the present with an efficient, Adapted to the changes, the demands of competitiveness is reflected in current markets, it is important to take into account the need to restructure the organization as a function of time.

Through this paper, we provide some basic guidelines that aim, motivate you to meditate, to reflect on the advantages of this approach, this has been a very positive aspect in which we have participated in seminars, where we intend to exchange experience with those organizations that have made the region and feed on the experience and opinions of those managers and executives who are interested.

George Stalk Jr. As both Thomas N. Hout (1991) regarding this topic, ask a series of questions that merit transcribed and that you yourself have the answer, namely: What is it that distinguishes an organization that competes based on a traditional time factor? What your customers want? What organization and work process more effectively meet these desires? Do you have adequate staff?, You can add them: Is the staff trained for the restructuring to the changes? Do you have the right technology, marketing and organizational culture itself? ..

Obviously, as the authors mentioned and it is common knowledge to all officers, win customers is the motivation of every business, something that should not be neglected, and find the best way to give them what they want, all this leads to be starting points for restructuring an organization. However, firms differ greatly in their level of understanding of how to provide better value to customers. Not always reflect what are the factors that consumers pay or how a company can give you more directly or effectively. A company only gets to compete on the time factor, without achieving a remarkable understanding of which customers value and building the company on this basis.

Take into account and do not forget that companies compete based on time factor see their work differently from traditional companies.

The people in the company based on the time factor, or rapid cycling companies are considered part of an integrated system, a chain of operations and decision-making point that continuously delivers value to customers.

Precisely in these organizations and individuals know their own activities relate to the rest of the company and the customer. They know how work should flow and how to use the time of delivery.

Companies that are based on the time factor considered: .- that generate a continuous flow of work, reducing time spent .-, .- upstream practice changes to reduce symptoms in the terminal stages; .- They focus on all the system and on the main sequence; .- policies, processes, practices or persons involved in getting product to market are easy to see and can deal with them quickly.

Do not neglect that there are two basic concepts as the authors cited in the structuring of work with a view to reducing the time: one that is its organization around the main sequence, ie, comprising activities that directly add value the customer. The rest of what a company does is support, either preparing employees to add direct value or a complementary activity that can be done at any time.

Companies that are based on the time factor identified attribute value activities directly, the sea isolate of slave labor and organized in a clear and consistent sequence.

The other is that the work to flow continuously. By creating a smoother flow and more consistent across the main sequence can reduce the cycle time of the entire delivery process, thereby increasing capacity.

Finally, companies that are based on the time factor act in a manner consistent with its principles, when they decide how to record their results. Time is now widely used to measure business results. Executives use expressions such as execution time, on time delivery and response time almost intuitively by describing how a company serves its customers. But companies that rely on the time factor goes a step further. They use measures based on the time factor as a diagnostic tool for the company and establish the basic goals of the operation in terms of time. Apparatus use time as a program should run the organization. They often compare their own results over time with their best competitors or their best achievements in other places.