December 20, 2012 9:59:27 AM by
Josh Schow
Inquisitive minds burn with a consuming desire to discover and understand. In the process of business development, such impulses are quite helpful. Take business operations, for example, businesses must develop a thorough knowledge of their processes and optimize them over time to ensure success. The operations lens encompasses the planning, tactics, and logistics required to implement the company’s strategy. It’s the pragmatic side of strategy. Because it concerns the daily functions of a business, it acts as a conduit between the strategy lens and execution lens.
Every business has hundreds, or even thousands of processes that are used daily. This enormous volume of information presents a challenge. No single person can track all of it. Consequently, businesses frequently develop overlapping processes. Sometimes these overlaps are necessary redundancies, but other times they are wasteful. The point of 9Lenses is to utilize social discovery to find those processes that are useful and those that are frivolous. Systems are closely related to processes because the system frequently shapes how a process is developed. Infrastructure examines the key reports used by the business to make decisions. If the infrastructure is weak, then the company’s ability to perform will be compromised.
For left-brained, detail oriented individuals, operations will come naturally. Other more free intuitive thinkers find this difficult. Regardless of your natural cerebral orientation, every element of the operations lens ensures that a business runs efficiently and effectively. Thus, building a well-documented operations lens grounded in concrete techniques helps drive and sustain productivity.
September 18, 2012 2:41:13 PM by
Zach Enos
CEO and Founder of 9Lenses presents the big picture!
9Lenses offers businesses the one-stop-shop for organizational learning. As a result, the time it takes to discover and connect disparate data falls by as much as 90%. When businesses learn in a single cloud:
- Costs contract
- Efficiency improves
- Learning becomes centralized
- The number of vendors is streamlined
- Leadership receives a complete view of the business
- Organizations are empowered to act on relevant [real-time] data
- Enterprises leverage comprehensive insight to build a culture of transparency and accountability.
August 13, 2012 2:35:52 PM by
Zach Enos
At some point in our business lives, no matter how smart and successful we are, all of us get lost in the woods. Patterns and connections that once seemed so clear and easy to discern suddenly become elusive. You know what this feels like. It’s frustrating, perhaps even frightening. You’ve reached an inflection point, but you’re not sure what the next move should be. Leading an organization and making good decisions requires an understanding of context, but since today’s business world is so fast, fluid, dynamic, and complex, that context varies uniquely from one situation to the next, and from one moment to the next.
How are we supposed to find the right analytical context for something that is always changing? How do we predict, interpret, and respond to change, or for that matter, even know a change has occurred? We need a comprehensive and cohesive framework that is sensitive to the unique context of our company and flexible to its daily transformations. We need a way to view particular aspects of the business in close focus, but also to connect them together into a complete whole so we can identify when problems or opportunities arise. Attaining this kind of clarity requires intelligence and experience, but that’s not enough. Successful social enterprises always invest in the right tools.
What tools do you use to identify opportunity and attain clarity?
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July 25, 2012 10:01:21 AM by
Zach Enos
Our world is dominated by data. Ones and zeros are the lifeblood of business, entertainment, and social interactions. A 2011 McKinsey study concluded that "five new kinds of value might come from abundant data: 1) creating transparency in organizational activities that can be used to increase efficiency; 2) enabling more thorough analysis of employee and systems performances in ways that allow experiments and feedback; 3) segmenting populations in order to customize actions; 4) replacing/supporting human decision making with automated algorithms; and 5) innovating new business models, products, and services."
Data is pervasive. Businesses spend billions of dollars per year acquiring and utilizing tools that help them collect, store, and analyze data. Unfortunately, many of these tools are limited in function and, therefore, benefit.
Many tools attempt to help businesses diagnose and remediate problem areas. Unfortunately, most are too narrow and focus on isolated domain silos. These tools could provide rich content in an single area, but lack the sort of holistic context businesses need to succeed.
As McKinsey rightly pointed out in their 2011 study, there is tremendous value in "abundant data." The real challenge for businesses is to leverage that data across business silos--to connect the dots and understand the strategic impact of relevant data across the whole organization. The 9Lenses metastructure empowers organizations to make sense of abundant data, analyze it, and then turn that unfiltered insight into meaningful action.
Unlike the narrowly focused tools that are ubiquitous in today's business environments, 9Lenses social discovery software applications provide a powerful assessment of all the drivers of business success: Assets, Processes, and Structure. The 9Lenses has mapped every aspect of business into a simple and powerful hierarchy providing unparalleled insight. As a result, companies can collect, analyze, and use data immediately--and they can use data not just in one business domain, but across nine areas that are key to business success. The 9Lenses application suite sits atop the advanced insight Engine architecture integrating hard statistical data with user perspective trends through four layers of logic: Interview, Score, Interpret, Recommend.
9Lenses can help you use Data to drive:
Strategy
- Reveal your organizations top challenges and opportunities for immediate improvement.
- Targeted action plans based on unfiltered insight from employees.
- Tailored to efficiently and quickly meet organization needs.
Transparency
- Empower employees through social transactions by giving each person in the organization a voice.
- Candor and transparency are hallmarks of a healthy organization and facilitate corporate responsibility.
Efficiency
- Streamline operations.
- Crowd source business optimization
Better Analysis (Experiments and Feedback)
- A cutting edge metastructure that captures data and focuses analysis around nine critical areas that determine an organization's success.
- Run social baselines at strategic intervals to encourage continuous improvement and track success.
Innovation
- Leverage your organization’s Internal IP.
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July 16, 2012 2:21:47 PM by
Zach Enos
9Lenses' Cloud-Based Enterprise Performance software can discover an organization’s top strategic opportunities and challenges in less than 4 hours. In that respect, it is unparalleled. The lenses represent nine different areas that every business considers daily: Market, Finances, People, Strategy, Operations, Execution, Governance, Entity, and Expectation.
Many Enterprise Performance organizations offer tools to understand and improve performance in a single lens. The beauty of 9Lenses lies in its elegant display of interconnected actionable insights across all 9. Through intuitive web applications, each of which sits atop a high-powered Insight Engine, 9Lenses allows business leaders to generate specific data for each lens, and then integrates analytics to show interconnections and top opportunities for strategic alignment.
Clients and partner organizations utilize 9Lense’s software to prepare for strategic off-sites, adopt mass organizational changes, make strategic investments and acquisitions, and design executive education programs around identifiable knowledge gaps.
9Lenses leads the cloud-based Enterprise Performance software industry by delivering breakthrough insight applications which capitalize on every company’s most valuable resource—its people. 9Lenses meta-structure uses socially inspired insight to optimize every area of an organization.
Organizations use 9Lenses to:
- Preparing for strategic offsites
- Bring a new executive rapidly up-to-speed
- Design executive education programs that addresses critical knowledge gaps
- Complete comprehensive due diligence before making a strategic acquisition or investment
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