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Most operations plan for the staff they have. Plan instead for the demand that arrives, and you will often find you need less capacity than you thought.
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Failure demand is the work customers create when we fail to do something, or do it wrong. In most service operations it is a large cost, and a controllable one.
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When half the team works from home, team leaders lose the quick desk-side conversations that did most of their coaching. Here is how to put them back.
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