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What Happened to Sears Quality and Service?

15 November, 2011 by Jim Reardan 1 Comment

Washing Machine Battlefield

As a Baby Boomer, I grew up in a generation where the Sears brand name stood for quality, integrity, reliability, and superior customer service.  Among the many products Sears sold, its Kenmore appliances have long enjoyed a solid reputation.  I remember how happy my Mom was the day my Dad bought her her first Kenmore […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: customer focus, service differentiation, strategy

Do You Want Engaged Employees or Honest Ones?

30 June, 2011 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Engaging Strategy

Employee engagement is everything.  If your employees engage with your strategy they will work hard, go the extra mile, look after your customers, come into work when they are sick and at weekends… and generally push your strategy forward at pace. Employee engagement, you want it, right?  You want them to just get behind what […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: communication, customer focus, fessing up, reinforcing behaviour, strategy, trust

Zombies and KPI’s

20 May, 2011 by Bernie Smith 1 Comment

DIY KPIs

I subscribe to quite a few performance measurement emails, web sites and blogs.  I’ve noticed a worrying trend of sites offering “off the shelf” KPIs.  In fact you can now buy books packed with “ideal” KPIs for all sorts of businesses (oh, how the long winter nights must fly by). Are the measures in these […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: best practice, clarity, customer focus, key performance indicators, measurement, service improvement, strategy, zombies

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