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doHow® Smart Lean Performance System: Accelerating Executive Effectiveness.
The doHow® Smart Lean Performance System is a career accelerator for executives, providing a holistic approach to their development. The system includes the doHow® Foundation of Smart Lean Systems, which emphasizes continuous flow, and the doHow® Smart Lean Methodology, which includes fortnightly sessions covering presentations, assessments, simulations, gamification, workshops, and progress reviews. Stakeholder analysis and understanding one’s current reality are the first steps in developing strategies.
Top goals are then identified, and performance metrics derived, with tasks and routines planned and process mapping performed. Routine reporting, reviews, and debriefing with AAR modules are used for continual learning. Problem analysis and maturity analysis modules are also employed.
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Finding time for the important, but neglected activities
Debriefing and planning for effective time management
Improving meeting effectiveness with thorough preparation
Creating new habits for better agile mindset
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doHowᆴ is a smart lean performance system for achieving consistent outcomes by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of actions.ᅠ
doWhy is the first step in doHowᆴ, based on which the amazing outcome will be defined.ᅠ
Dinakar Murthy is the creator of doHowᆴ and a Change Management and Performance Leader with more than 10 years’ experience in Consultancoaching Individuals and Companies after more than 25 years of corporate leadership (for effectiveness) and management (for efficiency) experience in India, Brazil and Germany, apart from being associated with the EFQM business excellence model for more than 20 years.ᅠ
“Consultancoaching” is a combination of the necessary expertise and domain knowhow for consultancy and necessary ability to catalyse thinking as a coach, so that one can self-discover and implement the “Best-in-Class” practices.ᅠ
Growth, Rising, Increase, Performance of work, Origin.… Those, in Sanskrit, are some of the meanings of the word Samuthána, a company founded by Dinakar in 2013 for creating exceptional leaders and world class companies.
Unlike the training programs, doHowᆴ uses the good practices for solving problems with a hands-on approach for enabling the learning. Instead of executing a solution as is normal with consultants, doHowᆴ provides guided modules based on good practices for development of a strategy based on understanding the cause and effect followed by execution. doHowᆴ ensures sustainability.ᅠ
100%, since doHowᆴ addresses the actual challenges and is hands on. The doHowᆴ modules are so designed that everyone present is fully involved, either by replying to web-based surveys, discussing in small teams using the survey results for arriving at a common understanding or executing the actions planned.ᅠ
The doHowᆴ sessions are normally planned for 2 hours every fortnight and in-between these sessions a daily progress reporting needs to be done, which takes less than 15 minutes every day.ᅠ
Some of the actions are analysing the stakeholders, assessing based on Samuth£na templates, analysing the market, preparing a market canvas, debriefing, reviewing the effectiveness and efficiency of approaches, narrowing down on a problem, analysing the predictability of the causes, designing a process, analysing the throughput, maximising the constraint, defining the most relevant metrics, confirming the success checkpoints, taking an image of the actual situation, articulating the progress done, prospecting for leads, converting leads, rolling planning, tracking and monitoring fullkit status, delivering on time in full, etc.ᅠ
The most common effects of doHow® are self-accountability, coming prepared for meetings, meeting deadlines, proactively seeking support from colleagues, learning using online free resources, intense focus on the amazing outcomes, etc.
Generally the cash investment done for doHowᆴ is recovered within 3 months after the implementation, delivering a phenomenal return on investment. Apart from the direct tangible benefits, agile or growth mindset gets created with doHowᆴ, enabling the capacity overcome upcoming challenges with ease.ᅠ
doHow® APP is used to practice the learning and to enable guided thinking while executing the good practices.
doHowᆴ is designed for remote delivery by a local doHowᆴ Consultancoach, who will be trained and certified by Samuth£na. Till such time that the local doHowᆴ Consultancoach is ready, Dinakar will deliver remotely through virtual sessions with regular travel for Genchi Genbutsu (Collect the facts from the actual workplace).ᅠ
Since doHowᆴ improves effectiveness and efficiency, any delay in implementing the doHowᆴ Smart Lean Performance System leads to more hectic, crisis and fire fighting.