2. Six Disciplines for Excellence Overview
Gary Harpst

3. Mainstream Business Processes Built In
Financial (AP, AR, Cash, Billing, etc.)
Sales, Marketing, Services
Distribution
People, Relationships
Projects
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4. Six Disciplines Business System
People Suite
Slide Title: Six Disciplines Business System
The Six Disciplines Business System includes five essential, seamlessly-integrated Suites: People, Financial, Distribution, SMS and Project.
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5. Six Disciplines Business System
Financial Suite
Slide Title: Six Disciplines Business System
The Six Disciplines Business System includes five essential, seamlessly-integrated Suites: People, Financial, Distribution, SMS and Project.
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6. Six Disciplines Business System
Distribution Suite
Slide Title: Six Disciplines Business System
The Six Disciplines Business System includes five essential, seamlessly-integrated Suites: People, Financial, Distribution, SMS and Project.
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7. Six Disciplines Business System
SMS Suite
Slide Title: Six Disciplines Business System
The Six Disciplines Business System includes five essential, seamlessly-integrated Suites: People, Financial, Distribution, SMS and Project.
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8. Six Disciplines Business System
Project Suite
Slide Title: Six Disciplines Business System
The Six Disciplines Business System includes five essential, seamlessly-integrated Suites: People, Financial, Distribution, SMS and Project.
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9. Six Disciplines Business System
People Suite
Financial Suite
Distribution Suite
SMS Suite
Slide Title: Six Disciplines Business System
The Six Disciplines Business System includes five essential, seamlessly-integrated Suites: People, Financial, Distribution, SMS and Project.
Project Suite
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10. Business System Integration
Slide Title: Business System Integration
The Six Disciplines Business System offers a unique integration of the Six Disciplines Methodology with 16 core business processes including Human Resources, Cash, Billing, Receivables, Payables, General Ledger, Order Processing, Purchasing, Inventory, Sales, Marketing, Service, Projects, Project Billing, Time Entry and Expense Entry to allow all key aspects of your business processes to work together as an operational whole.
The five Suites of the Business System enable you to leverage performance measurement across the entire Six Disciplines Business System. The Six Disciplines Methodology will also incorporate all of your daily processes to provide you additional benefits within each Six Disciplines Suite. Unlike other small business systems, the Six Disciplines Business System provides you with the ability to tie Human Resources, Financials, Distribution, Sales, Marketing, Service, Project Performance Processes AND Activities and Measures to your organization’s stated Mission, Values, Goals, and Objectives. By using Business System Alerts and developing and tracking Measures, you will have all of the key performance insight you need to make better business decisions.
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11. Six Disciplines Technology Overview
Corporation
Client
Internet
Updated for v2 – SR
NOTES
Transition—to give a little background behind the scenes of what you are going to see….
Walk-thru all the major pieces of the System
Three organizations: you the client, corporate & the local Leadership Center
At each location are various resources & technologies:
Business System – walk-thru each component
Portal –
Leadership Center
local users verses remote
Internet – relate the advantage of the Server on premises is that even when the internet’s down you can “do business”
Relate those pieces to the equipment in the training room
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (TIME PERMITTING)
Leadership Center
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12. Six Disciplines Technology Overview
Corporation
Client
Internet
Portal
Website
Learning
Federation
Business System
Server
Methodology
Business Processes
Measures
Assistance
Business Data
Updated for v2 – SR
NOTES
Transition—to give a little background behind the scenes of what you are going to see….
Walk-thru all the major pieces of the System
Three organizations: you the client, corporate & the local Leadership Center
At each location are various resources & technologies:
Business System – walk-thru each component
Portal –
Leadership Center
local users verses remote
Internet – relate the advantage of the Server on premises is that even when the internet’s down you can “do business”
Relate those pieces to the equipment in the training room
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (TIME PERMITTING)
Leadership Center
Key Advisors
(CPA, attorney…)
Local Resources
Coaching
Training Facilities
Value-add Services
Customers
Remote Team Members
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exercise
What do you want your business to “be” in 10 years?
Updated for v2 – SR
NOTES
Transition: now reviewed all the key elements of Aligning Systems –Processes, Policies, Measures, Technologies, People.
How do you figure out where you are out of alignment & which offer the biggest payback
Let’s return to Step IIIA –Identify Misalignments to see one useful tools
The Alignment Survey
Have it ed and on their desk.
Have them respond.
Show them how the survey was created and administered….
Show report results….. (or from Hancock….)
DISCUSSION (TIME PERMITTING)
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pause
Let’s take a short break.
Exercise to draw out participants biggest challenges
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interaction
What do you look for in a restaurant?
Updated for v2 – SR
NOTES
Transition: now reviewed all the key elements of Aligning Systems –Processes, Policies, Measures, Technologies, People.
How do you figure out where you are out of alignment & which offer the biggest payback
Let’s return to Step IIIA –Identify Misalignments to see one useful tools
The Alignment Survey
Have it ed and on their desk.
Have them respond.
Show them how the survey was created and administered….
Show report results….. (or from Hancock….)
DISCUSSION (TIME PERMITTING)
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© 2004 Six Disciplines Leadership Center. All Rights Reserved.