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The Magic Matrix:
A Simple Business Assessment Tool
Ed Powers
Service Excellence Partners
December, 2011
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About….Ed Powers
• 24 years in operations, quality, sales,
marketing, and consulting
• Co-Founder and SVP Ops for Private Escapes
• Center Partners, Sorcia, and Hewlett-Packard
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Examiner, Baldrige National Quality Award
• Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence
board member
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Focus on the Fundamentals
When I was young, I had to learn
the fundamentals of basketball.
You can have all the physical
ability in the world, but you still
have to know the fundamentals.
--Michael Jordan
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Business Fundamentals
• Market
• Product
• Sales
• Delivery
• Money
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Business Fundamentals
• Market
–A group of customers having un-met
needs
• Product
–A solution attractive to those customers
• Sales
–A means to make promises and obtain
orders
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Business Fundamentals
• Delivery
–A means to keep promises and deliver
products
• Money
–A means to fund operations and pay an
attractive return
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Fundamentals for Success
• People
• Planning
• Execution
• Learning
Jim Collins
Get the right people on the bus …
and the wrong people off the bus.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Plans are nothing.
Planning is everything.
Larry Bossidy
Execution is … rigorously discussing how’s
and what’s, tenaciously following through,
and ensuring accountability.
Peter Senge
The only sustainable competitive
advantage is an organization's ability to
learn faster than the competition.
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Fundamentals for Success
• People
– Selection
– Empowerment
– Development
– Leadership
• Planning
– Future state
– Focus
– Pathway to success
– Alignment and resource allocation
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Fundamentals for Success
• Execution
– “Work the plan”
– Process performance
– Results
• Learning
– Data analysis
– Research
– Simulation
– Continuous improvement
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The Magic Matrix
Fundamentals
Competencies
People Planning Execution Learning
Market
Product
Sales
Delivery
Money
“Who, What, How”
discussion and
observation uncovers
gaps in people and
practices
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Example
Fundamentals
Competencies
People Planning Execution Learning
Market • Executive
• Key staff
• Requirements
• Strategy
• Partnerships
• Programs
• Demand
Generation
• Metrics review
• Surveys
• Listening posts
• Research
Product • Executive
• Key staff
• Roadmaps
• Project Plans
• Value
Propositions
• New Product
Introduction
• Post-mortems
• User reviews
• New technology
research
Sales • Executive
• Key staff
• Sales plans • Order
Generation
• Metrics review
• Process review
Delivery • Executive
• Key staff
• Work systems
• Supply chain
• Process design
• Order
Fulfillment
• Metrics review
• Process
improvement
Money • Executive
• Key staff
• Business
modeling
• Capital plan
• Budgeting
• AR/AP
• Fundraising
• Cash Mgt.
• Reporting
• Budget review
• Capital market
analysis
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Ed Powers
Principal
Service Excellence Partners
ed@se-partners.com
970-235-0078