Choosing the Right tool for Continuous Improvement Part # 1

 

Choosing the Right tool for Continuous Improvement  Part # 1

Continuous improvement is a mindset whereby organization strive to be looking for better ways to do things – historically it has been applied to manufacturing but it has spread widely to almost every process in the organization from making the products to ship it faster with more efficient cheaper way to maintenance to provide better approach to MRO and asset management, Project Management,  no matter what end deliverable of the organization tangible, intangible products, all services, educational, training, consultancy firms etc., all need continuous improvement

More organization started to realize the importance of adopting this philosophy and to be successful we have to consider following points.

1. Improvements have to be in small changes, not major paradigm because most people having denial towards new big changes and frightened to lose their comfort zone.
2. Ideas come from employees / Team members as they are more close to the problems, get them more involved and buying into it, this employee engagement lead to next point
3. Employees take ownership and are accountable for improvement; quantify the value of engagement with transparency for accountability.
4. Incremental improvements are typically inexpensive to implement and it will not have much of resistance as compare to big changes.
5. Improvements are reflective; it is important to have constant feedback to control and monitor the improvement with visibility transparent to employee / organization and to maintain team collaboration.
6. Improvement is measurable and potentially repeatable; the impact of change must be measured to determine if the change can be applied successfully to other problems, proving positive ROI helps organization aligned around ongoing process of improvement making it part of company culture                                                                    To implement a continuous Improvement Mode                           will be in next Blog