The 3 common traits of optimized organizations

People and processes – Part II

At the end of the day, optimization is about getting your organization to produce results faster and at the lowest possible cost.

As I wrote in part I of this post (People and processes part I)), I believe there are three traits shared by organizations that optimize their people and processes successfully:

1. Transparency: They define processes in a practical way
2. Measurability: They define their parameters for success
3. Automatization: They use tools that help standardize processes, but at the same time, do so in a flexible and practical way

While these three prerequisites to optimization are in no way trivial, they are definitely possible with the right approach. The rest of this post offers a description of each characteristic, and some tips for how to achieve it.

LinkedIn and Twitter updates

Are you also getting more and more annoyed of useless Twitter updates on LinkedIn?

I am - but since LinkedIn does not provide a setting allowing you only to elinimate Twitter updates the consequence is that I am now hiding updates from all people redirectiing their Twitter updates to LinkedIn...

Here is how to do it:

In the upper right corner of a status update from a peson you click "Hide". This will effectively hide all updates from that person (including Twitter, TripIt and other useless updates).

People and processes - Part I

The thing that makes knowledge-based organizations tick is people and processes. Some organizations seem to operate like the old “Bornholmer” clock – manual winding required, not quite accurate, looking a bit antiquated but still ticking away in its own quiet pace.

Others seem to be top-tuned like a sophisticated pulse watch and capable of adjusting and reflecting the exact performance at any given time. This kind of organization knows its present state and what to do to get even better – the people and the processes feel he heartbeat and optimizes continuously.

Surely it is interesting to understand the difference between these two kinds of organizations.