Few consulting “tools” are more widely abused these days than so-called best practices. It’s no wonder most banks, supermarkets, airlines, retailers, and consulting firms look astonishingly similar—they’ve been busy copying each other’s best practices for decades. The problem with best practices is this: that approach lulls people into thinking that a best practice really exists that can be successfully transplanted. Here are four reasons you should dump best practices.
The Worst Thing about Best Practices
Posted by Dagmar_R under StrategyFrom http://www.themanager.org 3192 days ago
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3187 days ago
You have to start to answer the question Why (Simon SInek) you are in business, and then go from there. You can't copy & paste a best practice example from some other company.
3189 days ago
3188 days ago
This is a guest article on our website; hence I am not the author. However, I guess most businesses do well without caring about best practices. They just find out what works for them and go with it. This article is about the risk for businesses that blindly follow the advice of consultants who try to sell them best practices that work for others.
A company I worked for tried to copy the workforce structures of a profitable competitor, i.e. how many people work in which department. It was a complete disaster.