Lean is a way of thinking. It is a journey that is never over. It is a system framed in a collection of rules and principles. Some of the following 10 criteria may be more important than others to consider at the different phases of lean transformation.
Lean is a way of thinking. It is a journey that is never over. It is a system framed in a collection of rules and principles. Current conditions and criteria must be examined. Some of the following 10 criteria may be more important than others to consider at the different phases of lean transformation.
• Performance is what an enterprise delivers to its shareholders in the here and now, evaluated through such measures as net operating profit, return on capital employed, total returns to share- holders, net operating costs, and stock turn.
• Health is the ability of the organization to align, execute, and renew itself faster than its competition, allowing it to sustain exceptional performance year in, year out
The need for someone to 'do the job' can be your greatest enemy. In many organizations that have grown beyond owning a single outlet, one of the biggest challenges operators face is finding good managers.
A company is in Prime when form and function are in balance. The what and the how are in balance. Prior to Prime, function is more important than form. In other words, what we do is more important than how we do it. After Prime, how we do it is more important than what we do. That is why, after Prime, how you do something and whom you know is more important than what you do. In Prime, the what and how are in balance. In Prime, the company is both flexible and in control. Prior to Prime, the company is flexible, but not very much in control of itself. After Prime, control is very high, and the company loses flexibility. In Prime, flexibility and control are together.
However, in a company in Prime, the management is not as flexible as before Prime, because there is professional management: The tendency to depend on any single indispensable individual does not exist as it does in younger companies. On the other hand, in Prime, the organization has a strategic outlook without losing attention to detail. Furthermore, the organization does not look only at detail without losing its strategic outlook, so the company in Prime has controlled flexibility, and it doesn’t depend on any single individual.
Lean is a way of thinking. It is a journey that is never over. It is a system framed in a collection of rules and principles. Current conditions and criteria must be examined. Some of the following 10 criteria may be more important than others to consider at the different phases of lean transformation.
• Performance is what an enterprise delivers to its shareholders in the here and now, evaluated through such measures as net operating profit, return on capital employed, total returns to share- holders, net operating costs, and stock turn.
• Health is the ability of the organization to align, execute, and renew itself faster than its competition, allowing it to sustain exceptional performance year in, year out
The need for someone to 'do the job' can be your greatest enemy. In many organizations that have grown beyond owning a single outlet, one of the biggest challenges operators face is finding good managers.
A company is in Prime when form and function are in balance. The what and the how are in balance. Prior to Prime, function is more important than form. In other words, what we do is more important than how we do it. After Prime, how we do it is more important than what we do. That is why, after Prime, how you do something and whom you know is more important than what you do. In Prime, the what and how are in balance. In Prime, the company is both flexible and in control. Prior to Prime, the company is flexible, but not very much in control of itself. After Prime, control is very high, and the company loses flexibility. In Prime, flexibility and control are together.
However, in a company in Prime, the management is not as flexible as before Prime, because there is professional management: The tendency to depend on any single indispensable individual does not exist as it does in younger companies. On the other hand, in Prime, the organization has a strategic outlook without losing attention to detail. Furthermore, the organization does not look only at detail without losing its strategic outlook, so the company in Prime has controlled flexibility, and it doesn’t depend on any single individual.
A company is in Prime when form and function are in balance. The what and the how are in balance. Prior to Prime, function is more important than form. In other words, what we do is more important than how we do it. After Prime, how we do it is more important than what we do. That is why, after Prime, how you do something and whom you know is more important than what you do. In Prime, the what and how are in balance. In Prime, the company is both flexible and in control. Prior to Prime, the company is flexible, but not very much in control of itself. After Prime, control is very high, and the company loses flexibility. In Prime, flexibility and control are together.
However, in a company in Prime, the management is not as flexible as before Prime, because there is professional management: The tendency to depend on any single indispensable individual does not exist as it does in younger companies. On the other hand, in Prime, the organization has a strategic outlook without losing attention to detail. Furthermore, the organization does not look only at detail without losing its strategic outlook, so the company in Prime has controlled flexibility, and it doesn’t depend on any single individual.
Throughout the book, the authors provide practical insights into the following three pillars of digital transformations that successfully scale:
• Reinventing the business model
• Building out a business architecture from the customer back into the organization
• Establishing an 'amoeba' IT and organizational foundation that learns and evolves
The learnings from this book are:
• How to build a 3-stage structure to help prioritize strategic and operational challenges that will digitize the organization.
• To understand the roles and importance of new technological positions, such as the Information Technology function and CDO.
• To set digital milestones to track the progress on the transformation of the organization – towards digital transformation & Digital culture.
• To rethink traditional business architecture while redesigning the agile organization.
The book is a useful guide for all leaders who recognize the power and promise of a digital transformation - who want to avoid being steered by 3rd parties - and chart their own course in the digital economy
Tech giant Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella’s first book in which he explores his personal journey, the company’s ongoing transformation and the wave of technological change will hit the future.
The book titled “ Hit Refresh “ carries a foreword by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Some of my Key picks from the Book
Page 38 & 39- 3 Business & leadership principles learned from Cricket
• Compete vigorously and with passion in the face of uncertainty and intimidation
• Put your team first, ahead of your personal statistics and recognition.
• One brilliant character who does not put the team first can destroy the entire team.
Page 119
• “ To be a leader in this company, your job is to find the rose petals in the field of Shit “ – We can look at a leader as an operator of a machine. Machines are built up using a lot of different cogs of all sizes that coherently work together as one giant machine. So be definition it is important to select cogs that you know you can trust and rely on before operating your machine. Since without these cogs, it all falls apart and you would not be able to operate anything.
Page 119 & 120 -Leadership Principles
• Bring clarity to those you work with. By taking internal and external noise and synthesizing a message from it to deliver to your team.
• Leaders generate Energy, not only on their own teams but across the company.
• To find a way a way to deliver success to make things happen. This means driving innovations that people love and are inspired to work on; finding balance between long-term success and short-term wins; and being boundary-less and globally minded in seeing solutions.
Page 125 – Our Partners
• “ For everyone working with partners, I encourage you to ask yourself “ What could be?” and explore new, creative ways to do interesting things that add value back to our platforms for customers” .
Page 126 – Four initiatives every company must make a priority
• Engage with your customers base by leveraging data to improve the customer experience.
• Empower your own employees by enabling greater and more mobile productivity and collaboration in the new digital world of work.
• Optimize operations, automating and simplifying business process across sales, operations & finance.
• Transform products service and business models ( Become a digital company)
Page 166– Quantum Computers
• “ Quantum computers will not stake the form of new stand-alone, super-fast PC but will operate as a co-processor , receiving its instructions and cues from a stack of classical processors” .
Morphing continually to achieve Business AgilityEmiliano Soldi
Morphing is a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes one image or shape into another, through a seamless transition.
That's a great metaphor to represent how companies should reinvent themselves continuously, to serve its customers and run after their ever changing needs. That state is today called "Business Agility".
Companies achieving that state, report increased revenues, better capacity to turnaround, higher quality offerings, improved relationships with clients and higher employees engagement.
Statistics say that they possess three fundamental aspects: Lean-Agile Funding Models, organizational structures re-arranged around value streams, revisited processes to sustain relentless improvement.
In this talk we'll see what kind of changes are needed to companies' operating models to develop those key aspects and how Agile can be thought as the best methodological and cultural platform to speed-up that change.
We will understand what is necessary to let our organizations to finally being able to morph continually to achieve Business Agility.
In the year 2002, Warren Buffett made an admission that he had not been as vigilant as he should have been in his role as Director of the various subsidiaries of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. In a letter to the shareholders he wrote “ Too often I was silent when management made proposals that I judged to be counter to the interest of the shareholders. In those cases, collegiality trumped independence and a certain social atmosphere presides in boardrooms where it becomes impolitic to challenge the Chief Executive.
Kevin Sharer, Chairman of Amgen, the US biotech company, portrayed a very different relationship between board and chief executive. “ Working with the board is vital, complex, and beyond your prior experience. It is among the most complex human relationships, especially if you are the chairman, when you are their boss, and they are your boss. Get the relationship right or it will hurt you.
These two very different experiences open a new book, Boards that Lead- When to take charge, When to Partner and When to stay out of the way. The central premise of the books is a plea. “ Governing boards should take more active leadership of the enterprises, not just monitor its management?
The growing complexity of markets and strategy, the authors say, is one of the biggest challenges for board members. It also means that they cannot afford to sit back and rubber stamp executive’s plans.
Boards often fail to do their job, they point out, for example failing to do their due diligence. They cite the example of Yahoo’s Chief Executive Scott Thompson. After a few months in the post, it was discovered that he had listed a degree in both accounting and computer science, but had actually earned only the first.
A good book to read move from Delivering to Leading.
Happy Reading
Talent Wins” by Dr.Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey
Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century.
Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where "lines and boxes" still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid--and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment--companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive.
Turning conventional views on their heads, talent and leadership experts Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey provide leaders with a new and different playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent--for today's agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven strategic environment--and for creating the HR function that business needs. Filled with examples of forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent (such as ADP, Amgen, BlackRock, Blackstone, Haier, ING, Marsh, Tata Communications, Telenor, and Volvo), as well as the juggernauts and the startups of Silicon Valley, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor that they apply to financial capital to their human capital--elevating HR to the same level as finance in their organizations.
Providing deep, expert insight and advice for what needs to change and how to change it, this is the definitive book for reimagining and creating a talent-driven organization that wins.
Happy reading & Learning
Why is a great company culture so rare? How can you make sure your organization has one? The good news is that creating an inspiring and sustainable culture is not as hard as you might think. Dr. David “Doc” Vik reveals the keys to success in The Culture Secret.
A remarkable culture begins with visionary leaders who help their teams take a holistic approach to creating engagement inside their companies and sharing it with customers. Discover how to take culture beyond casual Friday and into more meaningful conversations like:
•Driving Vision
•Defining Purpose
•Clear business model
•Unique/WOW factors
•Meaningful Values
•Inspired Leadership
•Great customers and customer service
•Brand enhancement
•Experience and the emotional connection
If you don’t think you have to focus on attracting—and retaining—the best employees in today’s hypercompetitive war for talent, you are living in the past. The employees and customers of today have a choice and a voice. The secret to culture is simple: take care of your people, never stop innovating, and leave customers wowed. Build a better culture to secure the future for any organization
Leadership Development Process - InspireOne - Redefining Learning JourneysInspireone
Development & Business results are interlinked comprehensively. Unless business leaders &
HR/OD leaders don’t work together to create and
support this linkage, a virtual tug of war will pull
people in opposite directions. InspireOne provides complete leadership development solution for your company.
Whether corporate governance is a burden meant to report compliance on companies’ performance, or can it be used as a competitive advantage in view of the changing laws, awareness and scenario is the important question which is present in the minds of those at the top of the company affairs including the CEO, Directors and Boards.
The book under reference, “Boards that Deliver”, by Ram Charan attempts to answer this question in a certain and prudent manner. The author believes that with the right set of practices, any group of directors can become a board that delivers value to the management and to the investors and goes ahead to demonstrate his points giving directions on various steps to be taken to make this happen.
An investor's least favorite statement -- Oops Wrong CEO -- and You Need More...Leslie S. Pratch
While you own a company, you need the right people to execute and adjust the plans that will achieve your financial targets. When you go to sell, the team in place must be strong enough to convince buyers there's still substantial upside ahead. Managing human capital proactively and systematically can prevent problems and make your investments much more valuable.
Remote Work & Digital Transformation: 7 Questions to AskJosue Sierra
This presentation provides 7 questions leaders and managers can ask in order to re-frame the challenges related to leveraging remote talent or telecommuting, while at the same time, accelerating their digital transformation journey! Even if you don't have remote team members, consider these 7 questions as a way to foster digital leadership in your organization.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/josuesierra
Full article also available at:
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/remote-work-digital-transformation-asking-right-questions-sierra
These time-honored tools and techniques can help companies transform quickly. And watch the video “How to Lead Change Management": http://youtu.be/PQ0doKfhecQ.
It’s hard to sustain the top management balancing act. The ability to achieve and maintain the balance between opposing tensions is a critical skill for top managers. We discuss the balancing role, the challenge of identifying and developing this skill, and some ideas about finding balance.
A company is in Prime when form and function are in balance. The what and the how are in balance. Prior to Prime, function is more important than form. In other words, what we do is more important than how we do it. After Prime, how we do it is more important than what we do. That is why, after Prime, how you do something and whom you know is more important than what you do. In Prime, the what and how are in balance. In Prime, the company is both flexible and in control. Prior to Prime, the company is flexible, but not very much in control of itself. After Prime, control is very high, and the company loses flexibility. In Prime, flexibility and control are together.
However, in a company in Prime, the management is not as flexible as before Prime, because there is professional management: The tendency to depend on any single indispensable individual does not exist as it does in younger companies. On the other hand, in Prime, the organization has a strategic outlook without losing attention to detail. Furthermore, the organization does not look only at detail without losing its strategic outlook, so the company in Prime has controlled flexibility, and it doesn’t depend on any single individual.
Throughout the book, the authors provide practical insights into the following three pillars of digital transformations that successfully scale:
• Reinventing the business model
• Building out a business architecture from the customer back into the organization
• Establishing an 'amoeba' IT and organizational foundation that learns and evolves
The learnings from this book are:
• How to build a 3-stage structure to help prioritize strategic and operational challenges that will digitize the organization.
• To understand the roles and importance of new technological positions, such as the Information Technology function and CDO.
• To set digital milestones to track the progress on the transformation of the organization – towards digital transformation & Digital culture.
• To rethink traditional business architecture while redesigning the agile organization.
The book is a useful guide for all leaders who recognize the power and promise of a digital transformation - who want to avoid being steered by 3rd parties - and chart their own course in the digital economy
Tech giant Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella’s first book in which he explores his personal journey, the company’s ongoing transformation and the wave of technological change will hit the future.
The book titled “ Hit Refresh “ carries a foreword by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Some of my Key picks from the Book
Page 38 & 39- 3 Business & leadership principles learned from Cricket
• Compete vigorously and with passion in the face of uncertainty and intimidation
• Put your team first, ahead of your personal statistics and recognition.
• One brilliant character who does not put the team first can destroy the entire team.
Page 119
• “ To be a leader in this company, your job is to find the rose petals in the field of Shit “ – We can look at a leader as an operator of a machine. Machines are built up using a lot of different cogs of all sizes that coherently work together as one giant machine. So be definition it is important to select cogs that you know you can trust and rely on before operating your machine. Since without these cogs, it all falls apart and you would not be able to operate anything.
Page 119 & 120 -Leadership Principles
• Bring clarity to those you work with. By taking internal and external noise and synthesizing a message from it to deliver to your team.
• Leaders generate Energy, not only on their own teams but across the company.
• To find a way a way to deliver success to make things happen. This means driving innovations that people love and are inspired to work on; finding balance between long-term success and short-term wins; and being boundary-less and globally minded in seeing solutions.
Page 125 – Our Partners
• “ For everyone working with partners, I encourage you to ask yourself “ What could be?” and explore new, creative ways to do interesting things that add value back to our platforms for customers” .
Page 126 – Four initiatives every company must make a priority
• Engage with your customers base by leveraging data to improve the customer experience.
• Empower your own employees by enabling greater and more mobile productivity and collaboration in the new digital world of work.
• Optimize operations, automating and simplifying business process across sales, operations & finance.
• Transform products service and business models ( Become a digital company)
Page 166– Quantum Computers
• “ Quantum computers will not stake the form of new stand-alone, super-fast PC but will operate as a co-processor , receiving its instructions and cues from a stack of classical processors” .
Morphing continually to achieve Business AgilityEmiliano Soldi
Morphing is a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes one image or shape into another, through a seamless transition.
That's a great metaphor to represent how companies should reinvent themselves continuously, to serve its customers and run after their ever changing needs. That state is today called "Business Agility".
Companies achieving that state, report increased revenues, better capacity to turnaround, higher quality offerings, improved relationships with clients and higher employees engagement.
Statistics say that they possess three fundamental aspects: Lean-Agile Funding Models, organizational structures re-arranged around value streams, revisited processes to sustain relentless improvement.
In this talk we'll see what kind of changes are needed to companies' operating models to develop those key aspects and how Agile can be thought as the best methodological and cultural platform to speed-up that change.
We will understand what is necessary to let our organizations to finally being able to morph continually to achieve Business Agility.
In the year 2002, Warren Buffett made an admission that he had not been as vigilant as he should have been in his role as Director of the various subsidiaries of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. In a letter to the shareholders he wrote “ Too often I was silent when management made proposals that I judged to be counter to the interest of the shareholders. In those cases, collegiality trumped independence and a certain social atmosphere presides in boardrooms where it becomes impolitic to challenge the Chief Executive.
Kevin Sharer, Chairman of Amgen, the US biotech company, portrayed a very different relationship between board and chief executive. “ Working with the board is vital, complex, and beyond your prior experience. It is among the most complex human relationships, especially if you are the chairman, when you are their boss, and they are your boss. Get the relationship right or it will hurt you.
These two very different experiences open a new book, Boards that Lead- When to take charge, When to Partner and When to stay out of the way. The central premise of the books is a plea. “ Governing boards should take more active leadership of the enterprises, not just monitor its management?
The growing complexity of markets and strategy, the authors say, is one of the biggest challenges for board members. It also means that they cannot afford to sit back and rubber stamp executive’s plans.
Boards often fail to do their job, they point out, for example failing to do their due diligence. They cite the example of Yahoo’s Chief Executive Scott Thompson. After a few months in the post, it was discovered that he had listed a degree in both accounting and computer science, but had actually earned only the first.
A good book to read move from Delivering to Leading.
Happy Reading
Talent Wins” by Dr.Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey
Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century.
Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where "lines and boxes" still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid--and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment--companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive.
Turning conventional views on their heads, talent and leadership experts Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey provide leaders with a new and different playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent--for today's agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven strategic environment--and for creating the HR function that business needs. Filled with examples of forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent (such as ADP, Amgen, BlackRock, Blackstone, Haier, ING, Marsh, Tata Communications, Telenor, and Volvo), as well as the juggernauts and the startups of Silicon Valley, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor that they apply to financial capital to their human capital--elevating HR to the same level as finance in their organizations.
Providing deep, expert insight and advice for what needs to change and how to change it, this is the definitive book for reimagining and creating a talent-driven organization that wins.
Happy reading & Learning
Why is a great company culture so rare? How can you make sure your organization has one? The good news is that creating an inspiring and sustainable culture is not as hard as you might think. Dr. David “Doc” Vik reveals the keys to success in The Culture Secret.
A remarkable culture begins with visionary leaders who help their teams take a holistic approach to creating engagement inside their companies and sharing it with customers. Discover how to take culture beyond casual Friday and into more meaningful conversations like:
•Driving Vision
•Defining Purpose
•Clear business model
•Unique/WOW factors
•Meaningful Values
•Inspired Leadership
•Great customers and customer service
•Brand enhancement
•Experience and the emotional connection
If you don’t think you have to focus on attracting—and retaining—the best employees in today’s hypercompetitive war for talent, you are living in the past. The employees and customers of today have a choice and a voice. The secret to culture is simple: take care of your people, never stop innovating, and leave customers wowed. Build a better culture to secure the future for any organization
Leadership Development Process - InspireOne - Redefining Learning JourneysInspireone
Development & Business results are interlinked comprehensively. Unless business leaders &
HR/OD leaders don’t work together to create and
support this linkage, a virtual tug of war will pull
people in opposite directions. InspireOne provides complete leadership development solution for your company.
Whether corporate governance is a burden meant to report compliance on companies’ performance, or can it be used as a competitive advantage in view of the changing laws, awareness and scenario is the important question which is present in the minds of those at the top of the company affairs including the CEO, Directors and Boards.
The book under reference, “Boards that Deliver”, by Ram Charan attempts to answer this question in a certain and prudent manner. The author believes that with the right set of practices, any group of directors can become a board that delivers value to the management and to the investors and goes ahead to demonstrate his points giving directions on various steps to be taken to make this happen.
An investor's least favorite statement -- Oops Wrong CEO -- and You Need More...Leslie S. Pratch
While you own a company, you need the right people to execute and adjust the plans that will achieve your financial targets. When you go to sell, the team in place must be strong enough to convince buyers there's still substantial upside ahead. Managing human capital proactively and systematically can prevent problems and make your investments much more valuable.
Remote Work & Digital Transformation: 7 Questions to AskJosue Sierra
This presentation provides 7 questions leaders and managers can ask in order to re-frame the challenges related to leveraging remote talent or telecommuting, while at the same time, accelerating their digital transformation journey! Even if you don't have remote team members, consider these 7 questions as a way to foster digital leadership in your organization.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/josuesierra
Full article also available at:
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/remote-work-digital-transformation-asking-right-questions-sierra
These time-honored tools and techniques can help companies transform quickly. And watch the video “How to Lead Change Management": http://youtu.be/PQ0doKfhecQ.
It’s hard to sustain the top management balancing act. The ability to achieve and maintain the balance between opposing tensions is a critical skill for top managers. We discuss the balancing role, the challenge of identifying and developing this skill, and some ideas about finding balance.
Lessons learned when implementing Lean - LMAC UKBarry Jeffrey
Having spent almost 25 years working around Lean and implementing Lean in many organisations, I have learnt some very important and key lessons, admittedly some of these the hard way.
But the key is that my experience is born, by doing. If you do not try something you will not learn.
Lean is a very powerful philosophy, a way to do business in a way that works for the customer, the senior management team and most importantly, the employees. It will work in any organisation, if it is properly understood and the ‘why we are doing this’ is clear.
This is not an extensive list, but in my experience these are some of the most important points to consider.
The urgency for adaptability presents the contradiction of innovation (new performance) versus regulation (allowed methods). Expanding the perspective on both terms presents an opportunity to coordinate their objectives under clear complementary guidance.
Utilizing Prosci's Top 10 Tactics for Managing Resistance will help you identify and focus on the correct issues so your teams can successfully navigate change and engage and adopt critical organizational changes.
Go through these slides to know more about Prosci's Top 10 Tactics for Managing Resistance.
Organizational Change Management Paper
Contents
Your paper MUST follow this outline:
Identify and describe a failed organizational change
Identify and describe one organizational change theory
Apply the theory above to the failed change above
In General
Strict APA formatting
Minimum three professional sources
Full use of in-text citations
8-10 pages on content
Title page
Running head
Table of Contents
Reference page
Due Date
Due by the 7th class meeting at class time
Late papers will suffer a 10% grade reduction
Managing Organizational Change
By Michael W. Durant, CCE, CPA
The increased pace of change that many of us have encountered over the past ten years
has been dramatic. During the late 1980s, many of us were grappling with issues that we
had never encountered. The accelerated use of leverage as a means of increasing
shareholder wealth left the balance sheet of some of America’s finest organizations in
disarray. Many of our largest customers, that for years represented minimal risk and
required a minimum amount of time to manage, consumed most of our energy. By the end
of 1993, many of these organizations had either resolved their financial troubles in
bankruptcy court or no longer existed.
Just as we began to think the external environment would settle down and our
professional lives would return to a normal pace, many of our organizations initiated
efforts to improve operating efficiency to become more competitive in the world
marketplace.
Competition has heated up across the board. To succeed, the organization of the future
must serve customers better, create new advantages and survive in bitterly contested
markets. To stay competitive, companies must do away with work and processes that
don’t add value.
This hypercompetition has invalidated the basic assumptions of sustainable markets.
There are few companies that have escaped this shift in competitiveness. Entry barriers,
which once exerted a stabilizing force on competition, have fallen in the face of the rapid
changes of the information age. These forces have challenged our capacity to cope with
organizational life.
Permanent White Water
Things are not going to settle down. Many things we used to take for granted are
probably gone forever. We cannot predict with any certainty what tomorrow will be like,
except to say that it will be different than today.
Peter Vaill has captured the essence of the problem of a continuously changing context in
a compelling image - “permanent white water.” In the past, many of us believed that by
using the means that were under our control we could pretty much accomplish anything
we set out to do. Sure, from time to time there would be temporary disruptions. But the
disruptions were only temporary, and things always settled back down. The mental image
generated by these thoughts is that of a canoe trip on a calm, still lake.
However, Vaill explains, in today’s environment, we never get out of the rapids. As soon
as we digest one .
Building an outcome driven high ownership companyBrowne & Mohan
What does it take a build company where every employee owns the quality of their outcomes and productivity , every act is purpose driven. What elements of a workplace make an employee to willingly own and contribute more to her job?. In this paper Browne & Mohan consultants presents the mechanisms that can be used to build an high ownership and outcome driven company
This presentation addresses the tough subject of Navigating the Transition and Planning the Way Forward When Your Company Gets Bought Out.
Three major areas to address:
Defining the Transition
Levers to Cultural Integration
Steps to Successful Integration
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How to create an effective lean daily work management systemglobalsevensteps
With Lean Daily Work Management System at the core of its operations, an organization will be able to quickly identify deviation, start solving problems and make strategy deployment a success.
How to bounce back in business with improved results post covid globalsevensteps
Four Cs which will drive Business results through Business Excellence. One of them is not Covid-19!
Yes! Corona or COVID 19 both starting with letter C has put the entire world in a Chaotic situation. Decades before this I wrote about 4Cs which drive any organizations to pursue the Journey of excellence.
A guide will demonstrate priceless to an organization during its lean excursion. Here, this lean change guide is built through five stages including the zones of worry—from training to foundation.
Quality is the result of collective effort of every employee in an organization. Quality cannot be achieved only through stringent quality control methods and use of sophisticated instruments or by highly competent quality department.
It happens that the most important elements in the daily activity of manufacturing begin with the letter “M.” In factories, we are trying to find the best possible combination of Men, Materials, Methods, Measurements, and Machines, so that we can make the best products while spending less cost. Standard operations can be defined as an effective mode of workers, materials, and machines for the sake of making high-quality products at low cost, quickly, and safely.
Life of equipment depends not only on how well it is used but also on how well it is maintained. Various versions of maintenance techniques are in use. Total Productive Maintenance popularized by Japanese is one of the best methodology used worldwide
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How lean transformation is evaluated converted
1. Lean is a way of thinking. It is a journey that is never over. It is a system framed in a collection
of rules and principles. Current conditions and criteria must be examined. Some of the following
10 criteria may be more important than others to consider at the different phases of lean
transformation.
Creative Tension
Typically, tension carries a negative connotation. It is associated with headaches and difficult
circumstances. When a company is pursuing lean, however, tension is a good thing. In fact, the
urgency for lean and its introduction into an organization is always easier when a company is
struggling—when there is sufficient tension—than when it is doing well. The real challenge is to
get organizations to embrace lean in good times.
To develop tension, not stress (stress arises out of hopelessness), a company needs to develop
and articulate a clear vision of the ideal state’s characteristics. Then it must contrast that against
a deep understanding of its current state and define the gap. It does not matter how well a
company is performing because there is always a gap. The gap creates the tension.
For example, to instill some tension and a sense of urgency for introducing lean, a presentation
was given to the senior leadership and management staff of a building materials
manufacturer. After hours of discussion, it was clear the presenter failed. The company was
experiencing healthy profit margins; its market share was growing; and it was practically debt-
free. It was not until the company’s ideal state was defined and its leaders witnessed
choreographed plant tours to reveal the current state that they recognized the gap. The tension
was immediate and the leaders’ response was decisive.
Go for the Pull
If tension helps spur momentum for lean, it is best to capitalize on that momentum by engaging
champions predisposed to recognize the tension. An entire company cannot be taken on all at
2. once. So, start where there is a “pull” for lean rather than trying to “push” it in another area.
Most organizations start lean in their production areas where the effort is highly visible and
likely to reap the most benefits. However, when determining where to start, it is often best to
evaluate where there is the greatest pull. Look for a champion, sponsor, or compelling business
need.
As an example, a major gas and electric utility company started its lean efforts in the finance
area, because that is where the champion and the pull existed. Lean eventually spread to its
power plants, service centers, and other parts of the company.
Leadership Involvement
There are no better champions and no better advocates for pull then a company’s leaders. It is
ideal to have senior leadership actively engaged in the lean journey, not just sitting in a seat, but
also driving the vehicle. Unfortunately, senior leadership typically delegates the responsibility of
guiding the lean journey to others of lesser authority.
Even though there was a sponsor in the gas and electric utility’s ranks, it was difficult to engage
senior leadership on the journey in the early stage. To implement and institutionalize lean,
activities and structures at the management level were developed. This elevated the value and
results of lean to senior leaders, and today they are active and effective in leading the utility on
its lean journey.
Business Conditions
Business performance will determine what “gear” a company is in as it moves forward in its lean
journey. If a company is in survival mode or is under extreme pressure to immediately improve
performance, then leadership should focus on the immediate application of lean tools such
as Kaizens, waste elimination, or Five S. Development of a lean culture may be put on the back
burner for better times. If the climate is competitive pressure and recognition of the need to
improve, a company should begin with the tools but in parallel, work on changing the culture to
sustain and continue the improvements. If a company is in growing, flourishing industry that is
facing little pressure, then it should work specifically on developing the lean culture and apply
the tools as a manifestation of the culture.
Baggage
“Baggage,” refers to the bad taste left by past unsuccessful organization initiatives. A company
often overlooks this when it begins to design a lean approach. It does not make any difference if
the baggage is real or perceived; it should not be ignored. Baggage may include past corporate
initiative activities that resulted in layoffs or failed to satisfy expectations. It may also encompass
the “flavor-of-the-month” syndrome. The organization’s people may be primed to “wait it out or
wear it out” until the latest initiative—lean transformation—fades as well.
Culture
Consider the cultural makeup of a company. “Culture,” does not refer to the “lean culture” to
which a company may aspire. Rather, it is the unique traits and characteristics of the people
3. within the organization. Are there particular sensitivities to consider, such as language? For
example, multilingual training and development materials may need to be offered. There also
may be literacy issues. For example, at an aerospace supplier some basic lean tools were
presented in expectation of significant results as the company had many ripe improvement
opportunities. After less-than-stellar results, it was realized that there was some basic reading
and math deficiencies to address.
Resources
Ideally, a company will want the resources available to develop and dedicate certified lean
specialists to business units, plants, or specific areas. “Certified” means they are proven to have
reached some specified level of proficiency as determined by the company. The importance of
this is to establish a common language and a common lens for those who are driving the
organization. The specialists can act as internal consultants to teach, facilitate, and help direct
lean efforts. However, competition for resources or the relative size of the company may result in
the addition of lean to someone’s current responsibilities. Regardless, resource availability or
constraints must be considered when designing the approach.
Integration
More often that not, a company introduces lean either during or after other continuous
improvement initiatives. This can cause confusion between initiatives such as lean and six
sigma. One should not replace the other; they should complement one another.
One lean implementer likes to explain lean as, “…the systems you need to fight the daily fights
and manage the war. Six sigma, on the other hand, is the tool you need to storm the beach.” No
matter how it is looked at, an organization must see lean as a complement to the initiatives in
which it is engaged. Lean must be perceived as the vehicle to take an organization to new
heights. Successful efforts should not be negated. Lean should be used to leverage a company’s
effective efforts—not replace them.
Measurement / Evaluation
Measurement/ evaluation systems dramatically influence organizational
behaviors. Unfortunately, the resulting behaviors often conflict with the desired behaviors of a
lean initiative. A company should carefully look at what it measures and evaluates, and who is
accountable.
At a major automotive parts supplier, direct labor was the Holy Mantra : “drive out direct labor
and you will be rewarded.” The easiest way to drive out direct labor was to automate processes,
so that is what the company did. After closer examination, however, the company’s leaders
realized that costs actually increased because of downtime, scrap, indirect support, inventory,
and other issues. The point is not that automation does not have a place in lean: it absolutely
does. The point is the measurement drove the behavior, which is not the best lean practice.
Vocabulary
4. Vocabulary may seem like an unimportant consideration, but jargon can be
confusing. Employees of organizations become increasingly confused as leadership introduces
one initiative after another—the flavor of the month. If a company has a “process excellence”
initiative, the title should not be changed. Instead, it should be integrated with the rules,
principles, and practices of lean. If a lean concept is introduced, but there is already an existing
word with the same meaning, keep using the same world.
