My account was registered in 2015, formerly known as "Xu Xu's original ** chain plan", and later changed its name to "Xu Xu's original management and workplace" in Baijiahao.
Unconsciously, it's been eight years.
Some people say that all the cells in the human body are replaced every seven years. And what about eight years?
Am I the same person I was eight years ago?
I do not know. But I know, I've been on the road. You've always been there.
From the first chain to the value chain.
If you count from the warehouse management as a porter, I have been engaged in the management of ** chain for 26 years. I have worked in warehouse management, production planning, material control, procurement, material team leader, planning director, warehousing and logistics manager, PMC senior manager, factory director, chain director and almost all other first-chain positions, I think I have some experience in first-chain management, and I have also published three books.
However, in the past one or two years, I have found that my self-righteous and meticulous experience, which is based on practical summarization and refinement, has encountered a lot of resistance when the enterprise actually lands, resulting in many times not being able to truly solve the problems of the enterprise.
For example, the warehouse management of a company is chaotic, and the inventory is not allowed all year round. This problem does not seem complicated, we and the financial and warehouse managers, sorted out the warehouse operation process, formulated the warehouse management system, provided simple and effective operation tools, and trained a lot of practical warehouse operation skills, but the problem of inaccurate inventory was only alleviated, not really solved.
Why can't professional answers really solve the problem?
I think the reason is the "professional answer", the reason is that I am trapped in the "professional", trapped in the "** chain". For example, in the above example, it was later found that in addition to processes, systems, tools, and skills, there are also strategies, business models, performance, culture, as well as various games and various human ......
Quality management guru Crosby said, "Quality is too important to be handed over to professionals". Our ** chain is the same, we can't be confined to professionalism, it's time to jump out of the ** chain.
So, I stepped back to make my field of view a little wider. In this way, the enterprise value chain is seen from the ** chain.
There is a point of view,The raison d'être of an enterprise is to create value for customers.
We can break down the process of creating value for customers into a series of disparate but interrelated economic activities. These economic activities constitute a dynamic process of creating value for customers, which is the corporate value chain.
This series of economic activities includes value-added activities such as product research and development, ** chain, marketing, and after-sales service, as well as auxiliary activities such as human resources, finance, and public services.
The reason for the existence of the enterprise is to create value for customers, in this sense, the enterprise only has the problem of "unable to better create value for customers", and there is no so-called ** chain problem, product problem, sales problem ......
So, how to better create value for customers?One way to do this is to focus on managing the value chain to make the value stream smoother and more efficient.
So, I decided to jump from the ** chain to the value chain. However, the value chain system is too large and complex, and I am not able to do so, so I only focus on the design and research of value streams. Such as strategy, process, organization, power, internal control, digitalization, performance, incentives, etc.
Of course, it is still to take the ** chain as the starting point, after all, this is my "mother's home".
Baijiahao's "Xu Xu's Original Management and Workplace" will also be renamed as "Lao Xu Vernacular Enterprise Speed Up and Efficiency" from now on.
Why the name?
What is the relationship between "Lao Xu vernacular enterprise speed up and efficiency increase" and the value chain?
The purpose of value chain management is to make the value flow smoother and thus create value for customers more efficiently. But how smooth?How can it be efficient?
First, increase speed. In the VUCA era, speed is the eternal theme.
Second, improve efficiency. Speed alone is not enough, input and output are sometimes more important.
Therefore, "enterprise speed up and efficiency increase" came out. ——Of course, whether it is speed or efficiency, it needs to be "creating value for customers" as the direction and efficiency as the premise.
Why "vernacular"?
There is a saying that Stephen Hawking's greatest contribution to physics and science is not his verification of the singularity theorem, nor his Hawking radiation theory, his greatest contribution is the dissemination of science.
He wrote about esoteric topics in an easy-to-understand manner, and "A Brief History of Time" sold tens of millions of people around the world, creating a myth in the history of popular science.
Such is the power of the "vernacular".
Some of the management knowledge and some professional theories we are involved in, although not very profound, are often burdensome to understand for people who do not know very well. And now is an era of information, since there is a burden to understand, then he doesn't bother to understand, so he doesn't look at it. Therefore, no matter how good your theory is, you can only put it in a no-man's corner to laugh at yourself.
I hope to be able to talk about the value chain, speed up and efficiency in a simple, popular and easy-to-understand way.
Why "Lao Xu"?
I don't know when someone called me "Teacher Xu", and I always felt very awkward.
First, my abilities are really limited, and I am not qualified to be a teacher at all.
Second, I hope to open up communication with you and achieve a friend-like partnership with you. Even if a partner occasionally asks for help, it is just a matter of learning Xi and inspiring together.
Therefore, take this opportunity to change "Xu Xu" to "Lao Xu". I hope you forget about "Teacher Xu" and call me "Old Xu". — I'm almost fifty years old, and it seems that I can use the word "old".
Energizing the future.
Baijiahao's "Lao Xu Vernacular Enterprise Speed Up and Efficiency" will resume updating from now on, and strive to have 1-2 articles a week. myself, Xu Xu, Lao Xu, will also insist on continuous learning and Xi to ensure a certain quality of continuous output.