It’s critical to understand the connection between Good people and Good Systems. Good systems support good performance and drive good outcomes. Systems represent best practices which allow good people to excel. Systems provide consistency and predictability, eliminate waste and guesswork, and free people up to perform at their best.
Good People and Good Systems have to go hand in hand. Unless you have Good people APPLYING Good systems you won’t see results. That is one of the most common barriers we have seen in over 20 years of operations consulting and working with all types of companies who want to streamline business processes and standardize operations.
The greatest systems, the greatest technology, the greatest ideas in the world won’t transform your business unless your people understand how to apply them at ALL levels of the organization. That’s where Systems Thinking pays big dividends.