We need to get there FAAAAST!!!

No comment is heard more frequently than "we need to get things done FAAAAST!!!!

We don't have time for long studies, big analyses.  Besides we know what we have to do - we've had these problems for years!!   And so, the doing begins . . . . or as the old joke goes from the pilot to the cabin "I have good news and bad news.  The good news is that we've got a tailwind and we're making great time.  The bad news is . . . we're lost." 

So just how fast is fast anyway?   ERP, Business process and information issues are almost always more complex than they appear to be.  They have to be.  They lie at the intersection of people, processes and technology.   So how do you solve problems fast?   

Here's the number one secret. (I hate to let this out of the bag).   Getting started!!   I can't you how many of those situations where we need FAAAAST, and companies sit on problems over-analyzing and re-analyzing them without doing anything.  But they didn't have time to do some analysis - they needed it FAAAAST. 

Fast is steady progress toward a goal.  Fast is building a team of superusers (See the tip of the month from June)who know how to tackle problems.  Fast is  . . . a PERCEPTION.    When you're always moving forward, the perception is that YOU"RE IN CONTROL.    And in fact, when you have a well defined process for implementing solutions, you can press the accelerator harder and make things go faster, put more gas in the tank as they say, or throttle back a bit when resources are needed elsewhere. 

It starts with a plan.  It starts with some real soul searching about what the problems might be, and who has the time, knowledge and focus to dissect them.   It starts with SLOW and slow becomes FAAAST!!!

I'd like to write more, but I can't because I hear a client calling who needs something done FAAAAST!!!!

Comments

[John Pellegrino]

Fast doesn't necessarily mean moving faster - it means getting to the goal by working in a way that gets you there faster than if you worked a different way. To me that means working at a steady pace (regardless of the pace's speed) instead of fits and starts.

Like the turtle and the hare. The hare worked fast, but not at a steady pace. The turtle worked slower, but very steadily. And we all know who got to the finish line first. That turtle was FAST!

Slow and steady, stay the course, get there FAST!