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Productivity Improvement Improving Product Quality and Output per Worker |
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By: Vadim Kotelnikov
Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach – Inspiration and Innovation Unlimited!
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"Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work." – Peter Drucker |
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Targeted Market: "We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work." – Jack Welch... MoreBusiness Process Thinking "Business process thinking is predicated upon the central belief that it is fundamentally the complex, cross-departmental, technology-enabled business process that create value for customers and shareholders." This predication assumes that every significant management activity should begin with an analysis of customers' needs and have, as an intrinsic objective, the shared understanding of the key business processes or organizational capabilities that are critical to satisfying those needs."3... 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:
Case in Point Canon The objectives of Canon Production System (CPS) are to manufacture better quality products at lower cost and deliver them faster. To achieve these goals, 9 wastes are to be eliminated... More Three Stages of the Suggestion System 1. Encouragement. In the first stage, management should make every effort to help the workers provide suggestions, no matter how primitive, for the betterment of the worker's job and the workshop. This will help the workers look at the way they are doing their jobs... MoreDeming's 14 Point's Plan for Total Quality Management (TQM) Point 7: Institute modern methods of supervision. The emphasis of production supervisors must be to help people to do a better job. Improvement of quality will automatically improve productivity. Management must prepare to take immediate action on response from supervisors concerning problems such as inherited defects, lack of maintenance of machines, poor tools or fuzzy operational definitions... More
STRIDES Problem Solving Model
The
STRIDES model
was developed by the Quality Support Council of
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... MoreCase in Point GE: Lessons from Jack Welch
Jack Welch's goal was to make GE "the world's most competitive
enterprise." "We now know where productivity – real and limitless
productivity – comes from.
Building Trust To Improve Productivity Research indicates2 that there is a strong correlation between components of trust (such as communication effectiveness, conflict management, and rapport) and productivity. Cultural differences play a key role in the creation of trust, since trust is built in different ways, and means different things in different cultures... MoreTPS-Lean Six Sigma TPS-Lean Six Sigma is like a ‘turbo-charged’ Lean Six Sigma program. TPS-Lean Six Sigma is a revolutionary, holistic concept. It actively has human capital embedded in Lean Six Sigma in a manner that not only stimulates commitment, integrity, work-life balance, passion, enjoyment at work and employee engagement but also stimulates individual and team learning in order to develop a motivated workforce and sustainable performance improvement and quality enhancement for the organization... More |
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References:
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Jack Welch quoted in Washington Post, March 23, 1997
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"Building Trust Across Cultural Boundaries", Ira Asherman, John W. Bing, Ed.D., and Lionel Laroche
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"Business Process Management is a Team Sport", Andrew Spanyi
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"Business Processes," Vadim Kotelnikov
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