KILS system business strategy

Posted by hecto on October 8, 2011 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

There is also a strategy which good business managers follow which is known as KILS (or Keep It Simple Stupid) to solve business problems as well as to structure their business systems in the simplest way possible. (B.M. 19) It has been found by advocates of the KILS method such as Professor D. T. Jones of Lean Enterprise Academy that there are huge delays in sending feedback to the early stages of a business compared to the time it takes to make a product or resolve a customer problem. Usually there are centralized business systems that take a detached view to improving specifically in areas of the business system. However when the KILS method is employed, it is used as a way to optimise the business process as a whole rather than concentrating specifically in one area. Thus the benefit of using the KILS method is that it is easier to spot problems by standardising the business process across all departments. However the KILS doctrine requires advanced ideas and IT services as shown by the progress of the large American corporation Walmart from its small, humble origins in the American Midwest to its global expansions at present. All this was possible because Walmart’s founder Sam Walton was able to take advantage of the fact that Walmart wasn’t perceived as an organisation that was capable of causing serious competition together with using electronic systems that were not commonly used at the time of Walmart’s founding. With regards to IT systems in the context of KILS method, the entire business system must be changed before fully implementing the IT systems.
Use of the IT systems allows the manager to follow the progress of a business system from the time an order is requested from a customer who wants a service or a product to the moment the product or service is delivered will show the unnecessary complications and errors inherent in the system i.e. the deficiencies in the system will be made obvious. It is important to take note that although IT systems may show no deficiencies, all things no matter how trivial must be taken into account.