Managing the Tail in Operations and Product Development

Managing the tail of operations processes is an increasingly important role for managers and analysts. Greater variety and consumer demand makes it ever more challenging to resolve issues or to know when to stop pursuing them. Teaching staff to understand the complementary roles of the financial and quality paradigms and providing them with best practices tools helps them to produce cost-effective results.

Tools for Managing the Tail

Managers and analysts who develop and improve products, systems and processes increasingly manage activities in the tail of near-perfect delivery expectations and stunning complexity. In addition to understanding the finance and quality contexts of their functions, they can manage the tail by simplifying processes and problems, reducing goals and options, optimizing within constraints and monitoring non-critical activities.

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