Showing posts with label Perfection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perfection. Show all posts

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Quality in service delivery

Cost, quality and delivery are buzz words in modern economy. Every organization has the focus on these three words; at least these words are spoken frequently. However the practicing these words are difficult. Especially “quality” is the world which has lot of meaning to the success. Quality is required in every job. It is not just for product quality. It includes service quality also. Service to customer, service to the boss (in term of own work), service to peers and service to the organization. This requires lot of efforts. Normally “ chalata hain attitude” spoils the culture of quality. Quality does not mean only perfection. Whenever you are giving any data to your boss, quality is expected. Quality also means adding certain value to that data. He is not expecting the clerical job from you, but analysis of the data will help him and he will definitely recognize your contribution.

We provide outstanding service when we excel in meeting the needs of others, so we must endeavor to produce wonderful products or provide excellent services that will surprise and gratify users, consumers or receivers. It is not enough to have excellent products. We also need to find the fastest and most effective ways of getting them to our members or clients, a "magical" way of delivering them.

We achieve quality of service when we combine the science of meeting the clients' technical demands with the art of making them feel emotionally satisfied. Quality of service applies not only to business, but also to government agencies, institutions, and organizations. We need to commit to listening to our members to identify the "moments of truth," when our members express opinions about our organization and its services. We need to commit to change ourselves and what we do, so we not only satisfy, but pleasantly surprise, our members, who honor us with their trust.

When we have a higher quality of service, our members feel they are better served, they promote the organization, and even us and we gain more members, which, in turn, increase our potential and improve our position.

If we want better organizations, as well as better countries, cities, and citizens, we need people who have quality in their blood and show it in each product or service they deliver every day.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Chalta Hain Yaar

“I can not match your expectations sometimes; you are very perfectionist”, one of my colleagues was giving me the feedback during interactive session. His statement was contradictory to the statement of my wife,” you are messy, you can’t be perfectionist.” She may be right at home.

“I expect the corrected data, I expect no errors, blunders, I expect organized work, I expect you follow the system properly. Is this perfection? This is just basic requirement of the job. You are good in concepts but then what’s about the process. If I ask you to keep the communication right, if I ask you timely feedback, if I ask you to document the process which is mandatory for legal and legacy purpose, am I expecting more from you?” I asked so many questions to him. I am not crazy to be so perfectionist. I can not afford to be that. I insist we should not exhibit “Chalta Hain” attitude.

“Chalta hain” attitude is the problem. Last week I was at Singapore and Shanghai. These are great cities designed with perfection. On Mumbai airport there were tiles with no match. Just different shades put in between. It was not even by design. The contractor must have taken the liberty to put those tiles due to shortage in shades.

It is everywhere in our world (I mean in India). I always surprise how they maintain the roads and landscape with symmetry in whole Shanghai city. Singapore airport is the busiest airport; still they manage the beauty and perfection in design.

How they manage it? They are also human beings. In fact we Indians are more creative and talented. The only hurdle is this Chalta Hain attitude.

Messy files, bad housekeeping, spilled trays and bins are the examples in offices. I have seen the people who even do not bother to classify the details as per the logical sequence. Expecting the data with logical sequence, date wise, name wise, designation wise, customer wise (to give some examples) is not the perfection. Discipline, quality work is the perquisite of job.

Can’t we go ahead with little bit analytical and be passionate about the job we do?

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