{"id":1257,"date":"2018-08-26T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2018-08-26T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T21:00:04","slug":"its-the-quality-and-relevancy-of-thought-and-action-taken-that-will-produce-the-best-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/its-the-quality-and-relevancy-of-thought-and-action-taken-that-will-produce-the-best-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the &#8220;Quality&#8221; and &#8220;Relevancy&#8221; of Thought and Action Taken That Will Produce the Best Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Last year, as a part of delivering the Strategic Marketing course at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke&#8217;s Bay I used a well known N.Z. medical franchise to illustrate the difference in customer experience between a &#8220;quantity&#8221; (throughput) focused medical practice versus that which concentrates more on resolving the client&#8217;s health situation than pushing through as many patients per hour as they can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The best outcomes obtainable are always those that stem from an organisation focusing on generating quality relevant solutions to meet customer needs; versus organisations that are productivity-geared.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Why is this so ? Because productivity-orientated mindsets are &#8220;production-driven&#8221; mindsets&#8230;as opposed to being &#8220;marketing-led&#8221;. Consequently, the former is more about the provider of products\/ services concentrating on &#8220;their own&#8221; needs\/ aspirations (e.g. profit maximisation objectives) versus those of the target market that they aim to meet the needs of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Until very recent times, even government organisations seemed to be more concerned with the volume\/ number of client engagements than the outcomes generated as a result of such engagements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you want to build a sustainable business, then focus the gearing of resource requirements and setting of objectives on achieving best outcomes possible<\/span><\/strong>; and not on maximising quantity\/ volume of output. In short, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">put &#8220;quality&#8221; and &#8220;relevancy&#8221; of inputs and outputs first and foremost<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; irrespective of whether you&#8217;re operating a product-based business or a service-based business.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">By setting objectives and introducing resources that are orientated towards achieving &#8220;relevant quality&#8221; outcomes, this will improve the likelihood that target customer\u00a0 needs will <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">actually be met<\/span><\/strong>. From an overall societal perspective, this translates into more issues\/ problems actually being resolved &#8211; versus remaining unresolved, and therefore recurring.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, as a part of delivering the Strategic Marketing course at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke&#8217;s Bay I used a well known N.Z. medical franchise to illustrate the difference in customer experience between a &#8220;quantity&#8221; (throughput) focused medical practice versus that which concentrates more on resolving the client&#8217;s health situation than pushing through as many patients per hour as they can. The best outcomes obtainable are always those that stem from an organisation focusing on generating quality&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}