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DARRAN BERRY


              Each  department’s  second  board  in  the  war  room
              showed  the  results  of  their  master  game  plan
              investigation which focused on just one or two lines for
              each point:

              WHO is the customer and WHERE are they?

              Which type of internal business model would they use to
              supply  cut  material  to  the  laminating  department?
              Would it be a new machine, a partnership with another

              department or outsourcing the work as examples?
              They looked into their process and understood exactly

              what their product or process was MADE UP OF.

              They could measure the exact goal of their department
              for  their  customer  and  knew  WHAT  their  department
              had to achieve and by when.

              Now as you can imagine there were departments such
              as production and quality that had internal customers
              like the sales department, but the sales department also
              had external customers and competitors themselves.

              Board  number  two  for  each  department  hardly  ever
              changed  during  the  year,  but  it  had  to  be  flexible  as




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