Double It! 2000-- Details
of Phases
PHASE 1
FEATURES
DEVELOP SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE:
- Print and distribute a built-in survey
form to managers and other employees so they can assess the strengths and weaknesses of
the company. Each employee responds to 100 + statements about the company.
- Survey statements are customized to your
company's type of business (retail, manufacturing, wholesale/distribution, service). This
provides much more relevancy to the survey, as well as the survey scores.
- Modify existing, add new, or delete
individual survey statements to help really hone in on areas relevant to the company.
VIEW COMPANY'S SURVEY SCORES:
- View and print the survey results in three dimensions-- (1)
Energy Conversion (i.e. awareness, direction, organization, and skills), (2) Business
Values (such as quality of product & service, teamwork, honesty, and others), and (3)
Five Growth Engines-market, technology, organization, people, and finance.
- View Energy Conversion and Five Growth Engines diagrams to
better understand the concepts behind your company's survey results.
- View the results on-screen in tabular format or as colorful
column and bar charts; or print out the data from one of over a dozen built-in reports.
- View, print survey score reports by department, management
level, and statement detail, helping you easily focus in on very specific areas of
operation.
- Colorful indicator flags tell you which scores are above and
below a median score within each of the three dimensions (energy, values, five engines),
thus helping you determine areas of relative strength and weakness in the company.
- Easily see how the company scored on "Key Values"
(including Customer Delight, Develop People, Continuous Improvement, Maximum Utilization,
and Innovation), so critical to the success of virtually any company.
- Copy survey detail results data to other programs, such as
Excel, for even greater in-depth analysis of company survey’s trends and tendencies.
- Enter your own comments on the company's performance for
individual energy, values, and engines results items so that you can reference this
information in Phase 2 as you develop your plan for future improvements.
PHASE
2 FEATURES
- Decide where you want to take your business in the future.
Double It! provides sample data for your particular type of business (Retail,
Manufacturing, Wholesale/Distribution, Service, or Custom) throughout all aspects of plan
building. Use the sample data as is, modify it, delete it, and create your own entries
from scratch. Review and print out the information you’ve entered from over a dozen
attractive built-in reports.
- DESCRIBE THE CONTEXT FOR THE PLAN: Give an historical
perspective of the company; list the opportunities presented; enumerate the achievements;
list the challenges; enumerate the company’s strengths and weaknesses using the Phase
1 survey information as reference; and develop a set of strategic issues facing the
company. Then set preliminary values and goals, and establish a preliminary vision of what
the company wants to become. Sample data is provided for your company’s business
type.
- DEFINE THE COMPANY'S MISSION: Utilize the plan context
information to prepare the company's mission statement, describing what the company
aspires to become over the next few years. Sample data is provided for your company’s
business type.
- COMMIT TO HIGH CORPORATE VALUES: Establish the corporate
values that can raise the performance of the company. Choose the values you want by
analyzing survey results, reviewing the plan context, and by reviewing a master list of
dozens of built-in business values (each one explained for clarity). Sample Values
Entry data is provided.
- SET YOUR GOALS: Establish the broad goals that the company
wants to achieve through the plan. Set one or more quantifiable and measurable objectives
for each goal. Sample Goals Entry data is provided.
- FORMULATE STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE THE VALUES AND GOALS:
Develop the strategies the company will employ to implement its values and achieve its
goals. Develop your specific strategies from Double It!’s list of insightful General
strategies (grouped by the five engines; market, technology (products & services),
organization, people, and finance). Double It! helps you hone in on just those strategies
for the values and goals you established earlier. It’s like having a built-in
management consultant at your side! Sample Strategies Entry data is provided.
PHASE
3 FEATURES
- DEVELOP ACTIONS FOR STRATEGIES: List the main actions that
the company will take to carry out the plan's strategies. For each strategy prepare a list
of steps to be taken, identifying the primary person responsible for the step, as well as
the start date and the end date for completing the step. View, print built-in reports of
action steps grouped by-strategy, responsible person (RP), due date, and status. Sort,
filter, move, copy/paste entries to see data in ways you want.
- UPDATE ACTIONS: Update action steps to change the
status of work as it is completed or becomes due, and make other revisions in the plan as
necessary.
- SURVEY & EVALUATE IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIONS: Print
and hand out Strategies Analysis Survey handout. Have key employees rate implementation of
strategies. Enter key employee ratings and comments about each strategy into program.
Print out summary report. Then analyze report to determine how to proceed with actions for
each strategy in the future.
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