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Is your company or department as efficient as it should be?

Berkonomics

Start by carefully restating the goal for the process, such as “produce 500 quality units per day” and create metrics to measure the present output and quality (rejects or time lost) with this goal. Consultants, outsourcing, and scrapping the system.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

What do we build in-house or outsource? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? Unlike some larger, more mature organizations, most startups don't spend much time or effort helping grow their employees beyond the immediate needs of the startup.

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Get to your goal by the most direct route.

Berkonomics

Start by carefully restating the goal for the process, such as “produce 500 quality units per day” and create metrics to measure the present output and quality (rejects or time lost) with this goal. Look first at whether some steps are creating a bottleneck or quality breakdown affecting subsequent steps (see insight 81 following this).

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. What do we build in-house or outsource? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? That same post said that finding part-time, consulting CTOs is fairly hard.

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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Transforming your organization for the new global economy requires perseverance and long-term thinking. Outsourcing the entirety of building a new system. I recommend outsourcing for flexibility in existing operations, but you need to take the leadership role in preparing your company for the future.

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8 Indications Of A Real Entrepreneur Versus A Hacker

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

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8 Signs Of A New Business Initiative And Not A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.