DailyPost 498
VALUE ADD MATRIX
While the supervision, monitoring, direction and may be planning has become so mechanical with modern mindset’s, requirements & digital tools aligning with each other. Unfortunately, the positioning of this genre has not changed; nor their job description or package & perks. The software & other tools perform his job in a highly efficient manner. Gone are those of human directions & compliance.
Given the nature of transformational changes in enterprises & businesses, what is the value add he brings to the table besides the normal supervision function, which the machine does better than us. As we land in the midst of the AI revolution, this question will become more and more harsh. This becomes a ROI issue? Cannot escape. It has to be individual & conspicuous, agreed by the subordinates and bosses, from the first level supervisor to the CEO. This is a transparency & delivery of different kind, futuristic in nature. The pay package cannot be the sole function of years of service.
If all contribute only to numbers and nothing else, what is the value add? It’s backend production numbers to front end sales numbers. The number crunching and correlation is already being done better by the machines. Challenging vast battery of Program Managers of Sr. VPs of their value addition to the tasks they supervise and its objective validation is the need of the hour. Delayering has been a time tested & successful modern management trick & has worked. Based on the matrix, a pre & post value add matrix implementation, delayering can happen.
A sudden severance is not neither possible or desirable. The retainership model would work fine and then final severance can happen. In the next wave of automation, which is just setting in, every supervisory manager has to prove his worth. The Value Add creatively created and worked upon can become critical to the successful evolution of the enterprise into a future fit organisation.
VALUE-ADD MATRIX PROVIDES CLARITY TO THE REAL UTILITY OF SUPERVISORY MANAGERS.
Sanjay Sahay