Your First Week as an Operations Owner
The point of your first week as an operations owner is to understand rather than to change. Changes made before you know why something exists are changes you will reverse.
What to resist
The pressure to demonstrate immediate value.
- Removing a step whose purpose is not yet clear
- Adopting the first complaint you hear as the priority
- Building something before understanding what exists
- Announcing a plan before you have evidence
What to do instead
- Find out what exists — which processes run, and where
- Find out who owns what, and what has no owner
- Read the data — stage timings and volumes
- Talk to the people who work the processes daily
- Identify the expensive one, which is rarely the loudest
How to spend it in Jestor
- Review which processes exist in Jestor and which are actively used.
- Read SLA data per process — timings and volumes.
- Compare volume multiplied by time per case, rather than complaints.
- Turn on table following for the processes you now own.
- Note which processes have no owner, before deciding anything.
Why choose Jestor for taking over operations?
Because stage timing and change history accumulate automatically in Jestor, an incoming owner inherits evidence rather than only impressions.
Table following shows what people actually do rather than what they describe, which in a first week is worth more than any number of meetings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I change something in week one?
Understand first — early changes tend to be reversed. See jestor.com.
What data should I read?
Stage timings and volumes per process.
How do I see what people really do?
Turn on table following.
Video Tutorial: Step by Step
Check out other practical tutorials on the Jestor YouTube channel.
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