"A company can seize extraordinary opportunities
only if it is very good at the ordinary operations"
Marcel Telles
I have a very personal idea about excellence in operations – I’ve known many experts and specialists, some extremely orthodox about the application but very few that understood that striving for continuous improvement is not new. Rather, having the ambition to want more out of life and working to achieve it, is the basis for human evolution and the true path of the most intelligent members of the referred species.
Since man had to traverse strange and hostile grounds, carrying the maximum goods possible and avoiding risk to their endeavor, the need for
planning and continuous improvement was present.
I believe that the “recent” transformation of this basic fact into a methodical discipline is just a consequence of application of scientific methods as seen in all of the other domains.
Tools are important but even more important is being a change driver, understanding the philosophy and being restless about wanting to do more with less.
Continuous improvement was a breath of fresh air – it forced people to be creative, inventive and not to accept fate. As all the disciplines come together to become “an institution” we need to be alert not suffer from the same sins of pride and presumption.
Since man had to traverse strange and hostile grounds, carrying the maximum goods possible and avoiding risk to their endeavor, the need for
planning and continuous improvement was present.
I believe that the “recent” transformation of this basic fact into a methodical discipline is just a consequence of application of scientific methods as seen in all of the other domains.
Tools are important but even more important is being a change driver, understanding the philosophy and being restless about wanting to do more with less.
Continuous improvement was a breath of fresh air – it forced people to be creative, inventive and not to accept fate. As all the disciplines come together to become “an institution” we need to be alert not suffer from the same sins of pride and presumption.
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CommunicationThe work of a manager is mostly about being able to communicate with other stakeholders, stretching limited resources or making members work autonomously to overcome great challenges
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Every Part Every IntervalMethodology to support batch size reduction
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ErgonomicsErgonomics and its application
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L6S in New Product DevelopmentUnderstand how the L6S tools can be applied in a transactional environment of new product development
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5S's for businessThe L6S tools can be applied to business processes as well if you have the competencies and the right level of abstract thought
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S.M.E.D. applied to BusinessesContinuous improvement tools are not limited to a manufacturing environment. Linking together CI and business is not easy but as always the idea is to start with a concept and pilot until it becomes a working usable tool
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