The document discusses defining a target operating model (TOM) for an organization. A TOM describes the future state of an organization across key dimensions like people, processes, technology, customers and markets. There is no single approach but it typically involves defining the organization's vision and business strategy, mapping out customer experiences and journeys, and modeling the processes, people and technology needed to meet customer and business needs in the future state. The TOM provides a holistic framework to guide the transformation from the current to the future state of the organization.
2. What is a target operating model
A definition of the future state of an organisation
People
Process
Technology
Customers
Markets / Geographies
Products
How do I get a target operating model
No prescriptive approach to delivering a T.O.M.
No commonly agreed principles as to what goes into a T.O.M.
Each organisation will have different needs and different focus.
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3. What are the major components of a T.O.M?
Culture
Behaviours
Leadership Procedures
Training KPIs
Incentives/Reward Volumetrics
Peer Reviews Business Rules
Monitoring Management Information
Environment
PEOPLE PROCESS What should these
look like in the future
state?
Customers
TECHNOLOGY
Products
Customer online
Markets CRM
Order Management
Financial systems
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4. The first challenge is to define the target
In defining our target operating model, were trying to answer the questions:-
What kind of business do we want to be / what is our vision?
What is our value proposition (ie, why are we here?)
What products / services should we be offering
At what pricing / margin
What revenue and profitability targets should we have, over the next 5 years
What cost base can we / should we support for the above
What is our anticipated cost of sale
What is our predicted cashflow
How do we present ourselves to our market and what do we stand for? (What is our brand strategy and value)
How do we make our customers aware of what we offer (What is our marketing strategy (ALT / BTL))
How do we sell to our customers (What is our sales strategy (online / direct to consumer))
How do we handle partner organisations (B2B)
How do we provide our customers with customer service (how do we handle their enquiries / complaints)
From whom do we source our raw materials (What is our supplier strategy)
How do we distribute our products to our customers (What is our logistics / supply chain strategy)
How to we utilise IT to support our business (What is our IT strategy (insource / outsource))
What financial / governance processes and controls do we need
These are frequently described in the overall business strategy (5 year plan):-
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5. The first challenge is to define the end-state
We can then start to decompose these into models about how our business should look:-
People
What kind of people do we need?
How many of them?
How are they organised?
Where do they sit?
How do we measure them?
What rewards / incentives do we have to put in place for them?
What training do they need?
What career / promotion prospects will we put in place for them?
How do we deal with performance issues?
How do we recruit them (or make them redundant from current state)
Process
What are our macro business processes (level 0)
How do they decompose into units of work (level 1+)
How do we measure their efficiency (KPIs)
What volumetrics do we believe each process will have (how often will the process be used)
How much will each process cost to run
What are the business rules for each process
What triggers a business process (event, time, volume etc).
What are the process hand-offs, and how does the organisation map to the process
What systematic technology do we want to put in place to support each process (and how much value or cost saving
does that bring compared to the technology total-cost-of-ownership ie, do the volumetrics stack up to the cost?)
What management information do we need to measure the process
Technology
What systems do our colleagues need to support the business processes were asking them to do
How do our customers interact with us through technology
What level of automation do we want through the various channels/segments/touchpoints!
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6. Where do we begin?
The commonly recognised starting point is the customer experience
Customer Principles
What products/services do we want to offer our customers
How do we want to interact with our customers
How much do we want them to do for themselves
Do we want their online and offline experiences to be similar
How do we contact our customers
How often to we proactively communicate with our customers
How much do we spend on each customer, and how much is the customer worth to us
What do we want our overall customer satisfaction target to be, as a result?
Customer Journeys
What segmentation of customers do we have
How do we want to treat each segment
How much value do we get from each segment
Will the customer journey be the same for each segment
What are the steps through the journey, what are the inputs and what do we expect the customer to do / feel at the
end of each step.
Who, in our organisation is the touch-point for the customer through each of the journey steps?
How do we measure customer satisfaction across each segment / journey (customer KPIs).
Strategies
Customer Segmentation Model
Customer Contact Strategy
Call-centre Strategy
Online / Social Media Strategy
Customer Value Proposition (s)
This tries the articulate the Customer I Wants, and the overall approach to how
those I Wants might be addressed within the cost/revenue parameters of the overall
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7. The first challenge is to define the end-state
From which we can derive a set of colleague I needs:-
People
Organisation Design
Remuneration / Compensation / Reward model
Organisation Volumetrics
Estates Plan
Skills / Competencies Assessment
Organisational Change Readiness Assessment
Job Descriptions
Employee Contracts
Relocation / Recruitment / Redundancy Plans
Training Plans
Process
Level 0, 1 & 2 Process Maps & KPIs
Business Rules Specifications
Workflow
Archiving
Physical Security
Interim processes (transitional state)
Manual procedures (for non-automated processes)
Technology
Systems requirements specification
MI Requirements
Lists of Values specification
User Roles & Permissions
Data Requirements & Ownership (including retention)
Help Requirements
Scripting Requirements
Environment Requirements
System Service Level Requirements
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8. Business capabilities will have different focus
For example, different emphasis on channels
call-centre design vs online design
PEOPLE
PROCESS Knowledge
TECHNOLOGY
PEOPLE
Call Centre PROCESS
channel
Collateral
TECHNOLOGY Online
channel
CUSTOMERS
but the overall design needs to be holistic, or consciously not (based on
the business strategy and/or customer principles
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9. Summary
Business Strategy what do we want to be?
+underpinning strategies
Customer Principles
Customer Design BUSINESS PROGRAMMES
I wants
Process Design
I needs
People Design Technology Design
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10. The first challenge is to define the end-state
Example checklist
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