{"id":9590,"date":"2021-01-14T06:11:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.syspro.com\/blog\/the-coos-role-in-rebooting-business\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:51:22","slug":"the-coos-role-in-rebooting-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.syspro.com\/blog\/erp-and-technology\/the-coos-role-in-rebooting-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The COOs role in rebooting business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Tesla a car manufacturer, an energy company or a technology firm? Elon Musk envisioned Tesla Motors as a technology company and independent automaker, aimed at eventually offering electric cars at prices affordable to the average consumer. Tesla Motors shortened its name to Tesla in February 2017 to take the focus away from cars. Today its extraordinarily ambitious founder has a clear purpose; to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar panels and integrated renewable energy solutions.<\/p>\n

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In the year of the Great Reboot, executives are being asked to re-imagine how their organizations, people, processes and standards should work. The dramatic shifts triggered by the Coronavirus have accelerated changes in how the workplace and shop floor will operate. What was once \u201cfuture\u201d trends has become “now” reality.<\/p>\n

In many businesses, the CEO focuses on longer-term strategies and delegates responsibilities to a COO (Chief Operations Officer) to handle short- and medium-term issues. The COO is responsible for creating operations and structures to support the delivery of the organization\u2019s products and services; that includes IT architectures and business processes. Companies are relying more on the COO to define and build the necessary foundations, structures, processes and IT functionality for an organization to be successful.<\/p>\n

What is the Great Reboot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The term “reboot” is a common term understood by anybody who uses a computer regularly. Rebooting the computer resets the way it operates. When you reboot you\u2019re changing how you\u2019re currently operating, starting something again or in a new way.<\/p>\n

In the 20th century, a number of Great Reboots changed the way people worked and lived. World War I ended the role of the aristocracy and changed societal order; the Great Depression heralded new ideas and policies about economic growth; World War II brought women into the workforce in large numbers; more recently, the information revolution transformed businesses and the nature of work. The shift from analogue to digital was a critical business drive before but in 2020 the Coronavirus has exponentially accelerated the need for this change and many COOs have already rebooted several parts of their organization to deal with COVID-forced changes.<\/p>\n

The COO\u2019s role in rebooting<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COO has overall responsibility for:<\/p>\n