Posted on Oct, 15th 2012 By Denis Leonard
How are you listening to the Voice Of your Customer? A survey finds that 52% of organizations use 3 to 4 methods to gather VOC data and 22% as many as 7 methods! Only 5% rely on one source of VOC.
The most common VOC data sources (in order of use) were:
Customer satisfaction surveys
Focus groups
Posted on Oct, 8th 2012 By Denis Leonard
Despite the current market and the recession these builders show how they have continued to improve, change and increase their bottom-line and create satisfied customers with high quality homes. There are the four winners of the National Housing Quality Award this year, with awards in the
Posted on Oct, 5th 2012 By Denis Leonard
On a construction site a worker was grumbling to himself as he worked. “How is it going?” I asked. “What?........oh…..ah fine…..well…..do you know on how many jobs they keep doing this the same stupid way? I keep fixing this damn thing every week. Have they any idea how much this costs them, hell I
Posted on Oct, 1st 2012 By Denis Leonard
A roof can represent 10-25% of the cost of a building, 90% of improper installation procedures are covered from view upon completion of work and defects are not identified until leaks or other problems occur at a later date, which brings us to the fact that roof failures feature high in
Posted on Sep, 23rd 2012 By Denis Leonard
Sometimes it feels as though buildings are being designed without consideration of those that will occupy them. Thought always needs to be given to how the environment will be used. For example while visiting a business recently and having time before a meeting started I realized that despite the
Posted on Sep, 14th 2012 By Denis Leonard
A recent survey conducted by Deloitte entitled ‘Core Beliefs and Culture’ showed that culture creates strong business performance, it also showed a key disconnect between leaders and employees.
Both “executives 94% and employees 88% believe that a distinct workplace culture is important to business
Posted on Sep, 6th 2012 By Denis Leonard
I have personally seen organizations that have used initiatives to drive service excellence and have created for example 98% customer satisfaction as a result. In each case it has been about creating a systematic approach. Starting with listening to the customer via surveys and focus groups to
Posted on Aug, 31st 2012 By Denis Leonard
$50k which was to be transferred from one business account to another was not actually completed.
A client was given completely different instructions by 3 different representatives from the same office.
A client was confidently informed, ‘not a problem just call us when you are ready and we can
Posted on Aug, 24th 2012 By Denis Leonard
While Quality tools and techniques have been around for a long time and proven their worth I still see and hear situations that amaze me. For example a trade embraced quality and created checklists, inspection points, tracked problems, eliminated root causes meaning that fewer defects and call
Posted on Aug, 8th 2012 By Denis Leonard
5W2H stands for 5 Ws and 2Hs or Who, What, When, Where, Whey How and How much.
When working on improving a process this is a very simple tool to help you think thorough improvement opportunities.
Who does this? This can lead to, could we do it with less people?
What is done at this step? This can
