It's not enough to have a great business design. Moving to the profit zone requires breakthrough operational performance as well.

And with the "half-life" of business designs shortening, small differences in operations can have a huge impact on the return a firm earns on its business design investment. At each stage of the business, operational strength plays a critical role:

• Early in the lifecycle, the emphasis is on rolling out the business design as quickly as possible while achieving or exceeding planned deadlines and economic targets;
  
  
• When a business is in its prime, the focus shifts to optimizing economic performance without compromising the firm's value proposition to its chosen customers; and,
  
  
• If decline has set in before the next business design is identified and launched, the operational goal frequently shifts to generating cash to enable investment in the future.
  
  

Our experience suggests the best operational strategies are informed by a rich understanding of the target customers and of the value proposition and business design built to attract them. This insight enables a management team to differentiate between critical investments and expendable costs. And it sets the stage for a company to delight customers with the most appropriate supply chain and the leanest possible cost structure and asset base.

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