Meeting Customer Demand in Challenging Times: TEAL Consulting Limited
Meeting Customer Demand in Challenging Times: TEAL Consulting Limited
TEAL Consulting
Limited
Service Understanding
Internal Factors
Errors, delays and inefficiencies plus causes
and implications
Customer
Demand
Type, Volume,
Variation, Service
vs. Failure, NonService Requests,
Feedback &
Complaints
Service Outputs
& Outcomes
Step 3
Step 2
Step n
External/Environmental Factors
What external constraints are imposed on the
service which affect its performance and ability to
improve (e.g. economic factors, lack of customer
knowledge, unrealistic customer expectations of
the service)
Slide 2
Outcomes vs Outputs
It's important to understand the difference
Processes deliver OUTPUTS
Recruit Staff - new appointed people
achievement
The staff may be:
at the right time or too late for the line manager
capable or incapable of performing their role
too many or too few
Slide 3
CUSTOMER
DEMAND
SERVICE
EFFECTIVENESS
SERVICE
EFFICIENCY
Slide 4
Resources Needed to
Satisfy All Demand
+ People
Cost
Our focus is
empowerment
Time
Slide 5
Appraisal
Costs
Internal Failure
Costs
External Failure
Costs
Cost of
Conforman
ce
Slide 6
Understanding Customer
Requirements
Gather meaningful Data on what the
Customer requires
Voice of the Customer (VOC)
meaningful terms
Critical to Quality standards (CTQ)
Slide 7
Process
Slide 8
Satisfaction
Delighters
Satisfaction
Region
More is Better
Need not
Fulfilled
Need
Fulfilled
Dissatisfaction
Region
Must Haves
Dissatisfaction
More is Better needs are generally explicit,
Must Haves and Delighters are usually unspoken
Slide 9
Taste
CUSTOMER:
Good room service"
Food Quality
Presentation
Temperature
Service Charge
Cost
VOC
CTQ
Specific
Hard to measure
Easy to measure
Vague terms
Measurable items
Slide 10
Requirements
Define a Requirement not a Solution
Document all the information
Ensure the Requirement is Measurable
Define the Measure
Establish meaningful Specification Limits
The acid test is whether the CTQ can be
Measured
Slide 11
% Vol
100%
95%
Repeaters
Partially flow
Shared processes
Some management
80%
Strangers
One offs
Universal processes
Significant management
Runners
Rapid flow
Dedicated processes
Self managed
%
Service
range
20%
Slide 12
Input 100
documents
Output 90
documents
Yield = 90%
Is this the whole story?
Slide 13
Input 100
Documents
98
RFT = 94%
93
RFT = 91%
C
RFT = 92%
Output 90
Documents
REWORK
2
SCRAP
What is the true yield (Rolled Throughput Yield) ?
Slide 14
Input 100
documents
98
RFT = 94%
93
RFT = 91%
C
RFT = 92%
Output 90
documents
A true reflection of
process performance
Slide 15
Slide 16
Exercise
Objective
major driver
External Perspective
Waiting
time
Length of
delivery
delay
They dont
care about
my
business; it
isnt worth
the wait
Perceived
service
quality
B
Customer
traffic
Waiting
time
Time
Slide 19
Internal Perspective
Customer Satisfaction
Level of
customer
satisfaction
Sales
Length of
delivery
delay
We cant
afford these
employees
Size of
service and
delivery
department
Slide 20
And Finally
Understanding what outcome the service is