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Cross Boundary Working

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The quality of the customer experience is determined by the success you achieve at every stage of the process as their order progresses through the organisation.

With integrated, lower cost processes, several departments and functional teams can be involved in completing process transactions.

Functional teams are frequently focused on different goals and measures, making the opportunity for conflict and failure high. This impacts immediately and negatively on the customer experience. Achieving successful customer experience outcomes depends on effective Cross Boundary Working.

Process design and management should consider not only WHAT the process is, but also HOW issues are identified and resolved between stages. The mechanism for managing problem resolution needs to be established, and linked closely with normal operational management through the measurement framework.

An organisational design is created for managing problem solving across functional boundaries, and ownership agreed with stakeholders and sponsors.

Backed up by knowledge systems and consistent operational measures, experience soon develops in managing rather than minding the boundaries.

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