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Efficiency Improvement |
By Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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– David Dunham |
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"Efficiency is intelligent
laziness."
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Principal Lessons About Operational Excellence Programs
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Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements Performance Management (Water):
When to Apply Operational Excellence Programs? A program to enhance operational excellence makes the best sense when there are significant opportunities to improve by bringing the underperformers up to the level of the best-performers within a given business paradigm. "This is the focus of most best-practices programs: stop reinventing the wheel and make sure that everyone, everywhere is operating with the best available knowledge."8
Case in
Point
Using the Best Practice
at GE: The Trotter Scorecard
Many
GE
business units employ a tool called the Trotter Matrix to check on their
use of best practices. The scorecard was developed by Lloyd Trotter, who ran
the Electrical Distribution and Controls side at GE. He listed six desirable
attributes for each of his plants and then scored each attribute...
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Be the Best Possible
10 Tips by
Ten3 NZ Ltd.
Good enough seldom
is.
Organisations that are continually productive and profitable incessantly
strive for
quality and excellence. Acknowledging that your
customers are not prepared to accept an attitude of "that's good
enough," how does your organisation's quality standards rate as against
its competitors? How do your own personal levels of excellence and
quality rate against your current and potential competitors in the
employment market? If you don't know the answer/s to these
questions, then resolve to find them out immediately. The longer
you delay, the larger the gap may be growing between you and your
competition!...
More Continuous Improvement Firm (CIF) CIF is a firm continuously improving on customer value due to improvements in productivity initiated by the members of the general work force. Productivity in CIF is broadly defined to include all facets of product quality as well as output per worker. A basic operating principle of the CIF is that improvements in product quality often produce simultaneous reductions in costs. The key success factor in this endogenous, incremental and continuous technological and operational change is the organization and management of the firm in such a way that all members are motivated to promote change and are supported in their effort to do so. What is remarkable about the CIF is its ability to operate simultaneously in all innovative arenas: new products, new technology, new organizational forms, and new customer relationship management... More Kaizen – the Japanese Concept of Effective Management Kaizen strategy calling for never-ending effort for improvement at all organizational levels, is the most important Japanese management concept and the key to the country's competitive advantage. Kaizen concentrates at improving the process rather than at achieving certain results. Such managerial attitudes make a major difference in how an organization masters change and achieves improvements... More Successful Implementation of Kaizen Strategy: 7 Conditions
One
of the most difficult aspects of introducing and implementing
Kaizen
strategy is assuring its continuity.
When a company introduces something new, such as quality circles, or total quality management (TQM), it experiences some initial success, but soon such success disappear like fireworks on summer night and after a while nothing is left, and management keeps looking for a new flavor of the month. This if because the company lacks the first three most important conditions for the successful introduction and implementation of Kaizen strategy... More
Quick and Easy Kaizen Quick and easy Kaizen helps eliminate or reduce wastes, promotes personal growth of employees and the company, provides guidance for employees, and serves as a barometer of leadership. Each kaizen may be small, but the cumulative effect is tremendous. The quick and easy kaizen process works as follows:
Suggestion Systems: American-style vs. Japanese-style
The American-style suggestion system stresses
the suggestion's economic benefits and provides economic incentives. The Japanese-style suggestion system stresses the morale boosting benefits of positive employee participation... More Case in Point Canon: Eliminating 9 Wastes The objectives of Canon Production System (CPS) are to manufacture better quality products at lower cost and deliver them faster. Canon invited all their employees to suggest ideas for improvement and developed 6 Guidelines for the Suggestion System to make it most effective. The company developed also a list of 9 wastes to help their employees become problem-conscious, move from operational improvement to systems improvement, and recognize the need for self-development... More Case in Point 14 TQM Slogans at Pentel Pentel is a Japanese firm manufacturing stationary products. The following is a list of 14 Pentel's slogans for explaining Total Quality Management (TQM) and Quick and Easy Kaizen philosophy to its employees.
Enterprise-wide Business Process Management (EBPM) EBPM can assist you to develop greater clarity on strategic direction and cascade it through your organization. A process-managed enterprise supports, empowers and energizes employees, encourages their initiative, enables and allows its people to perform process work. Value chain leadership requires cultivation of a shared vision in all participants. The shared vision provides common direction and focus, motivates personal, team, and organizational learning, and thus enables all participants in the value chain to work toward common goals... More Six Sigma Six Sigma is a long-term, forward-thinking initiative designed to fundamentally change the way corporations do business. It is first and foremost "a business process that enables companies to increase profits dramatically by streamlining operations, improving quality, and eliminating defects or mistakes in everything a company does. While traditional quality programs have focused on detecting and correcting defects, Six Sigma encompasses something broader: It provides specific methods to re-create the process itself so that defects are never produced in the first place... More Lean Production Lean is about doing more with less: less time, inventory, space people and money. Lean Manufacturing (also known as the Toyota Production System) is, in its most basic form, the systematic elimination of waste - overproduction, waiting, transportation, inventory, motion, over-processing, defective units – and the implementation of the concepts of continuous flow and customer pull. Five areas drive lean manufacturing/production: cost, quality, delivery, safety, and morale. Just as mass production is recognized as the production system of the 20th century, lean production is viewed as the production system of the 21st century... MoreTPS-Lean Six Sigma TPS-Lean Six Sigma is like a ‘turbo-charged’ Lean Six Sigma program... More STRIDES Problem Solving Model
The
STRIDES model
was developed by the Quality Support Council of
Process-managed Enterprise... Process Thinking... BPMS: Business Process Management System... Reward System... Measuring Efficiency Improvement... Two Elements of a Contemporary Measurement System... Apply 80/20 Rule to Improve Your Margins... A Connected Enterprise... Extended Enterprise... Virtual Integration... Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)... e-Business... Bridging IT-Business Divide... IT Architect... Cleaner Production... Case in Point: General Electric... Case in Point: GE Work-Out... Case in Point: Dell Computer Corporation... Case in Point: British Petroleum... Case in Point: Toyota Production System... Case in Point: "Great Game of Business"... Case Study Amazon.com... Case Study Avis... Case in Point: Six Sigma Implementation at GE... Case in Point: Lean Production at Gold Seal Engineering...
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