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Este título "Optimizing Each Part of a Firm Doesn’t Optimize the Whole Firm" faz-me logo recordar o paradoxo dos processos (aqui, referência de Março de 2008) e uma informação que não incluí até agora nesta série sobre o BSC e a ISO 9001:
"A optimização dos RESULTADOS globais é conseguida, não à custa da optimização de todos os processos mas através da optimização selectiva de alguns processos e, do desempenho deliberadamente menos positivo de outros.O BSC ao identificar quais os processos críticos e quais os processos contexto ajuda na optimização dos RESULTADOS globais.
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Os RESULTADOS globais são o mais importante, tudo deve convergir para eles."
"Each subsystem was performing to standard, but the interaction between them resulted in disaster.
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Unfortunately, most organizations today fall into the same trap: they look at isolated metrics, but fail to see the whole system. They optimize each part of the business separately, and fail to consider how they interact. When we see an operation as a set of isolated metrics to optimize, we can lose our sense of context and decrease overall performance — an efficiency paradox.
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Managers often fall into the trap of thinking that by improving each part of their enterprise, they will improve the whole. However, the opposite is often true.
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Success and failure are rarely determined by performance against a plan, but rather how you adapt for events that cannot be foreseen.
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If everyone is trained — and compensated — to focus on only their part of the task, the shared mission is lost. That’s not a path to greater efficiency or to profitability, but to oblivion."[Moi ici: Recordar o papel do BSC para alinhar, focar, concentrar]