Five Questions that Offer More Value

January 10, 2011 by Taylor Studios in Professional & Industry Tips

Taylor Studios Inc. is a process-oriented firm. Basically, we focus on process in order to offer the most creative planning/design/build experience as easy as possible. Process assists in making sure there is effective communication, deadlines are met, those responsible are held accountable, we are a lean operating machine and things don’t fall through the cracks.

Last week several of us met to review and improve our design process. Improvement is one of our core values and we thought we could improve this process. To keep us focused on what was important we kept the following questions at the forefront of our meeting:

We often ask ourselves is there something we should stop doing? If what we are doing is not offering our clients more value then why are we doing it? Often process can create its own dysfunctions. Reviewing it in this manner assists in alleviating steps in a process that may have been put in place for dysfunctional reasons. Where there are people, clients and processes there will be issues and problems. If we can minimize these we will become the most creative and sought after firm in the industry.

What questions do you ask to assure you are doing the most important things?