tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15689003575673749602024-03-06T13:49:38.016+05:30Kaizen LeapJasmeet Kohlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17701374948297061114noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568900357567374960.post-7573575571243014452018-12-23T17:03:00.000+05:302018-12-23T17:03:19.839+05:30<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Change Management - Identifying Difficult People</h2>
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In many improvement projects, it has been found that improvements either fail to take place or are only partially successful due to the resistance / non-cooperation (active or passive) by the stakeholders involved. This negative impact may also get magnified if other people also start doing the same which can derail entire improvement initiative also.<br />
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Hence, successful execution of improvement projects requires dealing with such people through change management. But what this requires is to first identify the type of difficult persons & then dealing with them accordingly.<br />
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We can categorize such people in following groups:<br />
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<li><b>The "Know Everything" people:</b> These people generally display arrogance & show that they know everything by offering opinions on every topics, including technical things outside their expertise & become loud & defensive when proven to be wrong. </li>
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<li><b>The "No Opinion" people:</b> As the name suggests, these people generally play it very safely & offer no opinions. And even when being specifically asked, they answer i either vague language or in such a way that it becomes difficult to understand what they want to say. </li>
<li><b>The Dominant People: </b>These people have a bullying & intimidating nature. They wish to dominate the proceedings or discussions, are severely critical of other people opinions & decisions & are constantly demanding attention.</li>
<li><b>The "Always Yes" People: </b>These people generally agree to everything which may also include making commitments to important tasks. But problems arise when very often they fail to deliver or deliver only partially of what was required which may also have a negative cascading effect in the whole project. Due to this, these people also are not very reliable in follow-up tasks.</li>
<li><b>The "Always No" People: </b>These people have a very rigid approach & are inflexible. Although they have a very good quality of playing by the rule-book but this approach often backfires also in crisis times or when some pro-activeness is required. They are also the ones to criticize & find negatives in whatever decisions are taken. </li>
<li><b>The "Complaining" People: </b>These people are always complaining about one thing or another to show why they are unable to do their tasks & want others to help them even if other tasks remain pending, howsoever important these tasks maybe. In a nutshell, nothing seems to be right with them at all the times. </li>
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Jasmeet Kohlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17701374948297061114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568900357567374960.post-76682339271538743742018-11-04T09:11:00.000+05:302018-11-04T09:11:06.291+05:30<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Change Management : Essential Ingredients</h2>
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Change is an essential part of nature - every day we see it with day & night & every year we see in forms of changing seasons. But still change is feared as it requires adapting to the changed conditions. Same is the case with the business organizations & people managing them as ever-changing market conditions & business environment requires making regular changes which often needs stepping out of comfort zones, for which many are not ready & when forced to change, are often left clueless & wondering how to do it.</div>
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Change Management is a dynamic approach which helps the organizations manage this confusion & provides a structural way for it to adapt itself successfully to not only to implement change in all its processes & activities but also to "embrace it enthusiastically" by making it a part of its culture & working methods. But its easier said than done & is often a very complex exercise as it not just implementation of certain tools but also dealing with the human element which can be unpredictable & requires making painstaking efforts to manage it.</div>
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The essential ingredients of running a successful business are People, Process & Technology. All three have to work in close coordination & should be in sync with each other for achieving the greater goals of the organization., Some essential steps in doing it are: </div>
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<li>Overall success of the change management depends on the people managing the organization, starting with the top management as they are running the show. Its very important to get them on board & commit to the required adaptations & then filtering this down to the lower levels of management as they are doing the day-to-day running of the organization. Required job roles with responsibilities would need to be decided & people with the required skills & qualifications would have to be selected to manage them. </li>
<li>A suitable strategy would have to be formulated, supported by robust & flexible processes which help in implementing the change management in the organization, Timelines & goals would have to be fixed after careful analysis to help in achieving the pre-determined goals. Of course, only willingness is not sufficient as close monitoring would also have to be done at appropriate levels to see the changes being implemented & deal with any issues & problems that may arise from time to time.</li>
<li>Suitable technology (as per affordability of the organization) would have to be deployed to bring together the people & the processes & keep them in alignment in pursuit of the goals. People, process & technology working in sync with each other can help the organizations immensely becoming lean, be more responsible towards meeting their compliance requirements, reduce their operational costs & waste, & most importantly be more responsive to the customer needs & market conditions & continue to be relevant even when many of their competitors have ceased to exist long ago. </li>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">Forecasting in business is a very critical
activity done by organizations to predict future outcomes based on historical data
& the management views for budgeting, planning & estimation in order to
prepare the organization to achieve its goals & targets. It helps in determining
the success of the business & minimizing the role of “luck, chance, gut
feeling, etc.” in critical business decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">1. Promotion of business: </span></b><span style="color: #424142; font-size: 12.0pt;">Forecasting helps in the
promotion of business by anticipating the uncertainties and risks in the
business & taking appropriate measures. It also helps in estimating the demand
for products & services & how to increase the demand, how the
organization will face the competition, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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financial forecasting. </span><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">Forecasting helps in </span><span style="color: #424142; font-size: 12.0pt;">estimating the financial requirements of a business
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& costs & forecast the funds required for other important things like expansion,
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">3. Smooth running of business:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">Accurate f</span><span style="color: #424142; font-size: 12.0pt;">orecasting helps the organizations know
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">4. Good decision making: </span></b><span style="color: #424142; font-size: 12.0pt;">The correctness of
management decisions related to utilization of resources for production, is heavily
dependent on accurate forecasting. It also helps the business to face adverse
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">5. Success in business: </span></b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">Accurate sales f</span><span style="color: #424142; font-size: 12.0pt;">orecasting helps in preparation
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planning since planning premises include forecast data having enormous
implications. In fact, forecasting is done prior to planning in order to make
effective & robust business plans. Hence, forecasting and planning are
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<b>Cost of "Not Improving" </b></h2>
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Just few weeks ago, General Electric (GE) was dropped for the first time from the Dow Jones Index in over 110 years. Also. GE happened to be the last original member of the group when Dow Jones started. If one looks at the The Dow Jones Index of 1995, one would find that about half of the companies there have been replaced with others in just last 20 years.<br />
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What it shows is that in today's rapidly changing business environment, an organization has to continuous keep on adapting itself to survive & be relevant in the marketplace. In spite of this, many organizations function at a very slow pace & in a very rigid manner not realizing that it can prove very costly in the long run. Delay in taking decisions, losing opportunities, waste in operational processes, wrong selection of people etc are the symptoms of the work culture of such organizations.<br />
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Such kind of working may be alright when things are alright but can be disastrous in case of any adverse conditions. This "Cost of Not Improving" in an organization's functioning, culture & mindset can threaten the very survival of the organization & also can make the organization severely suffer in the following ways: </div>
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<li>Slow decision making due to multiple layers of decision making or due to a "person specific approach" rather than a "process specific approach" could result in costly delays in taking critical business decisions</li>
<li>Not taking timely actions, thus encouraging a "bureaucratic culture" in the organization which encourages just pushing files from one desk to another, rather than approving them quickly</li>
<li>People at important positions are appointed or selected based more on "personal preferences" or "personal connections" rather than their abilities, qualifications or experience</li>
<li>Cost escalations due to delay in decision making</li>
<li>Taking temporary short-term measures for long term problems</li>
<li>Doing patchwork solutions where deep surgery is required</li>
<li>Taking action only after a problem becomes a crisis</li>
<li>Not keeping up with the competitors product offerings & decisions even if its affecting your own business, branding & market share</li>
<li>Giving low priority to preventive measures to address problems</li>
<li>Not taking suitable action to maintain your competitive edge in the market</li>
<li>Lost opportunities due to lack of timely decisions & action </li>
<li>Endlessly waiting for information </li>
<li>Very less or lack of interaction with vendors severely undermining their own capabilities & advantages. </li>
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Human Mistakes - What are they???</h2>
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Human errors are caused by human beings & can be defined as “An inappropriate action or response by a person which gives an undesired or unexpected outcome.” The major reason for human error is that Human performance is variable & not constant. Another major reason is that the monitoring & measuring mechanism of error detection & error correction has flaws or weak controls, which allows the error to occur.<br />
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•<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Willful errors</span> - Deliberately ignoring rules, may be due to pressure situations like lack of time or resources, etc.<br />
•<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inadvertent errors </span>- Errors caused by distraction or fatigue or similar reasons<br />
•<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Slowness</span> - Errors caused by delay in judgment and taking action when its too late<br />
•<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lack of standards</span> - Errors caused by not having or following any standards(written or visual)<br />
•<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Surprise errors</span> - Errors caused by malfunctioning of machines, machine breakdown or machine not capable of doing the desired work<br />
•<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intentional errors</span> - Least caused. Errors caused intentionally like sabotage or terrorist acts. <br />
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How to Plan a Gemba Walk?</h2>
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Lean lays a lot of stress on "Gemba Walk" to identify the waste in the process & bring about improvements. But what is this Gemba??</div>
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What is Gemba? </h3>
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Gemba is a Japanese term which literally means "the real place". In business, gemba means the place where the value is created, which primarily refers to the factory floor or the office floor. </div>
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What is a Gemba Walk? </h3>
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Gemba Walk means observing the work process at the actual place where the work is taking place. Lean emphasizes that managers at all levels should regularly go for Gemba Walks so that problems in a process are clearly visible at the production floor or office floor. Most of the improvement ideas also come from the same place. </div>
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How to Plan a Gemba Walk?</h3>
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Its very easy for a manager to go for a walk on the factory floor or the office floor to observe what is happening. But without a definite purpose & plan for it, it will just create more waste. Planning a "Gemba Walk" will require some planning in a systematic manner: </div>
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<li>Identify the purpose for the Gemba Walk</li>
<li>The work process, its inputs, working method & expected output should be understood clearly</li>
<li>The time for observation should be carefully decided to ensure that the visit happens at the right time for observing the process in action</li>
<li>Identify the right place to observe where work is being done and value is being created in the process</li>
<li>Carefully observe the work processes and activities to understand the current performance of the process. Take down notes and detailed drawings wherever required for later recalling what was observed</li>
<li>Based on the understanding of he process, evaluate the current process performance & compare with the ideal state to identify the gaps and weak links. Discuss with the team and other stakeholders involved in the process, wherever required to come at a definite outcome</li>
<li>Identify the opportunities for improvement based on observations & in discussion with all the stakeholders involved in the process, as per their expertise & discuss possible ways for solving the issues and problems found in the process</li>
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Life Lessons Hidden in Everyday Jokes !!!</h2>
<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life experiences are full of lessons, provided one has the mindset to read the hidden meaning in it. Even the everyday jokes that we see, hear or read has some important message in it for us. </span><br />
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Doctor: Your Liver is enlarged.<br />
Patient: Does that mean it has space for more whisky?<br />
(This is called "Positive Thinking")<br />
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<b>Lesson:</b> Positive Thinking is a very important trait of life that always tells us to always look at the brighter side off things to get Positive Results. A person with this attitude always displays happiness, health & success & has immense self-belief which can help in overcoming any problem or difficulty.<br />
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Lady to her dietician :- What l am worried about is my height and not my weight.<br />
Doc :- How come???<br />
Lady :- According to my weight, my height should be 7.8 feet...<br />
(Now this is called "Positive Attitude" )<br />
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<b>Lesson: </b>Positive Attitude is a way of life that makes a person optimist by nature & always looking at the brighter sides of life & expecting the best to happen. It is a mindset that brings positive thinking and avoid worries and negative thoughts. <br />
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A Man wrote to the bank. "My Cheque was returned with remark "Insufficient funds'. I want to know whether it refers to mine or the Bank".<br />
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<b>Lesson: </b>Self-confidence is the one's belief in his/her capabilities and skills. It helps in completing one's responsibilities as expected and face the problems with determination. It also helps in controlling of one's emotions and behavior responsibly.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading these hidden messages & then applying in our lives can make us much better in:</span><br />
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<li>organizing our work and life</li>
<li>having a clear and analytical thinking</li>
<li>having a calm and composed demeanor </li>
<li>having a clear communication with the right words</li>
<li>always conscious of behaving appropriately to be an inspiration to others</li>
<li>facing the responsibilities and problems at hand with confidence. </li>
<li>seeking help wherever required without any ego</li>
<li>admitting to mistakes sincerely and apologizing for it</li>
<li>appreciating others, especially the subordinates for good performance. </li>
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Hence, it is imperative for us to be positive even in difficult situations through positive thinking, having a positive attitude & have self-confidence in our abilities to achieve our goals, as expected.<br />
There can be many other qualities & traits that can be mentioned but the important ingredients are given here, most of which sbiuld be there. <i><b>Doing this would create a leader out of a mere manager......</b></i></div>
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How to develop a Problem Solving Culture !!!</h2>
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It is often seen that many organizations constantly face
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"Firefighting", as it is commonly known, is a type of negative culture affecting many business organizations which focuses on finding immediate solutions to the problems. Such organizations move from crisis to crisis. A Fireman emerges who douses the fire earning the appreciation of the Top Management. Almost no effort is made to evaluate why the crisis occurred in the first place. Eventually, this becomes the norm rather than exception in the organization and Firemen are given preference over all other people.<br />
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The solution to this is to develop a "Problem Solving Culture" in the organization where problems and issues are solved through a structured process by a cross-functional team, who have people with the required skills & training to develop & implement solutions for the problems at hand. Such kind of negative culture can be corrected by making
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•Avoid solving individual problems unless it assumes critical proportions<br />
•Train the problem solvers to go for the root cause and not just the visible
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•Encourage developing a mindset of “Preventing Problems” among staff rather
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•Discourage rewarding Firefighting persons<br />
•Encourage rewarding persons who practice prevention and systematic problem
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•Apply solutions only after evaluating their impact<br />
•Prioritize your problems<br />
•Set realistic timelines to avoid last minute hassles<br />
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Hurdles in Lean Implementation</h1>
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Lean has often been discussed as a solution for all the problems afflicting a business organization. But it is also a bitter truth that lean has very often failed also in numerous organizations, due to mainly the following reasons;</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Top management itself putting hurdles in lean implementation through pushing the subordinate managers to take up current issues & pushing Lean initiatives in the background thus giving passive encouragement to "Firefighting"</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Operational resistance to lean implementation due to fear of "job loss" which increases mainly due to "one way" line of communication between upper ad lower levels in the organization</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Launching lean initiatives without explaining its meaning and benefits to the employees or answering their doubts & queries</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cultural differences due to ethnic, language or any other issues which create lack of acceptability among the employees</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lack of adaptability to quickly change as per the market conditions, especially in organizations producing or dealing in a large variety of products in :</li>
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6. Treating "Reduction in Inventory" as a 'Business Asset loss" due to successful implementation of few lean projects</div>
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7. Long decision making processes</div>
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8. Limited or no resources for lean projects</div>
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9. Communication barriers between different levels in the organization leading to "lack of transparency"</div>
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10. Lastly, hiring a Consultant for Lean Implementation but not listening to their advice and giving them unreasonable timelines and targets.</div>
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Data not available for your Six Sigma Project - No Problem !!!!</h1>
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Although data is a very critical requirement for Lean Six Sigma projects, still there are situations like organizations which have just started Lean Six Sigma implementation, where data is not at all available or whatever data is available is very unreliable or can't be verified due to unavailability of process experts.</div>
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Many people would say that a Lean Six Sigma approach is not possible due to unavailability of data, still a project can be done through the same methodology by:</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Project Charter would comprise of the usual business case, problem, potential goals, project team & SIPOC with high level process map. But the difference would be that the problem & potential goals would be qualitative rather than quantitative.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A detailed process mapping exercise could be conducted for detailed understanding of the process, with possible measures & metrics. The detailed process map can be used to do a value stream analysis of the process & collect the relevant data for the same.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An initial FMEA could be done by the team to address the process weaknesses & a Cause & Effect (Fishbone) diagram exercise could be done to identify the possible x's. Once the x's are identified, data can be collected for these x's & a MSA can be done using them.</li>
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Lean Six Sigma Glossary & Terminologies</h2>
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<b>5S</b></div>
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What is 5S?<br />
Organize the work area:<br />
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Sort (eliminate that which is not needed)<br />
Set In Order (organize remaining items)<br />
Shine (clean and inspect work area)<br />
Standardize (write standards for above)<br />
Sustain (regularly apply the standards)<br />
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How does 5S help?<br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eliminates waste that results from a poorly organized work area (e.g. wasting time looking for a tool).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">5S is a system for organizing spaces so work can be performed efficiently, effectively, and safely. It focuses on putting everything where it belongs and keeping the workplace clean, which makes it easier for people to do their jobs safely and efficiently. </span></div>
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<b>Andon</b></div>
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What is Andon?<br />
Visual feedback system for the plant floor that indicates production status, alerts when assistance is needed, and empowers operators to stop the production process.<br />
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How does Andon help?<br />
Acts as a real-time communication tool for the plant floor that brings immediate attention to problems as they occur – so they can be instantly addressed.<br />
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Where Andon can be used?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Andon means "light" or "sign" in lean manufacturing where it is used as a signal to highlight an anomaly using a visual system of communication that is often relayed with a lit signboard or stacked lights. </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">In manufacturing, it refers to a system having </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">an electronic device that uses some form of signal lights </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">to notify maintenance, management, and other workers of a process or quality problem.</span></span></div>
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<b>Bottleneck Analysis</b></div>
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What is Bottleneck Analysis?</div>
Identify which part of the manufacturing process limits the overall throughput and improve the performance of that part of the process.<br />
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How does Bottleneck Analysis help?<br />
Improves throughput by strengthening the weakest link in the manufacturing process.<br />
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<b>Continuous Flow</b></div>
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What is Continuous Flow?<br />
Manufacturing where work-in-process smoothly flows through production with minimal (or no) buffers between steps of the manufacturing process.<br />
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How does Continuous Flow help?<br />
Eliminates many forms of waste (e.g. inventory, waiting time, and transport).<br />
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<b>Gemba (The Real Place)</b></div>
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What is Gemba?<br />
A philosophy that reminds us to get out of our offices and spend time on the plant floor – the place where real action occurs.<br />
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How does Gemba help?<br />
Promotes a deep and thorough understanding of real-world manufacturing issues – by first-hand observation and by talking with plant floor employees.<br />
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<b>Heijunka (Level Scheduling)</b></div>
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What is Heijunka?<br />
A form of production scheduling that purposely manufactures in much smaller batches by sequencing (mixing) product variants within the same process.<br />
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How does Heijunka help?<br />
Reduces lead times (since each product or variant is manufactured more frequently) and inventory (since batches are smaller).<br />
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<b>Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment)</b></div>
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What is Hoshin Kanri?<br />
Align the goals of the company (Strategy), with the plans of middle management (Tactics) and the work performed on the plant floor (Action).<br />
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How does Hoshin Kanri help?<br />
Ensures that progress towards strategic goals is consistent and thorough – eliminating the waste that comes from poor communication and inconsistent direction.<br />
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<b>Jidoka (Autonomation)</b></div>
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What is Jidoka?<br />
Design equipment to partially automate the manufacturing process (partial automation is typically much less expensive than full automation) and to automatically stop when defects are detected.<br />
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How does Jidoka help?<br />
After Jidoka, workers can frequently monitor multiple stations (reducing labor costs) and many quality issues can be detected immediately (improving quality).<br />
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<b>Just-In-Time (JIT)</b></div>
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What is Just-In-Time?<br />
Pull parts through production based on customer demand instead of pushing parts through production based on projected demand. Relies on many lean tools, such as Continuous Flow, Heijunka, Kanban, Standardized Work and Takt Time.<br />
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How does Just-In-Time help?<br />
Highly effective in reducing inventory levels. Improves cash flow and reduces space requirements.<br />
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<b>Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)</b></div>
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What is Kaizen?</div>
A strategy where employees work together proactively to achieve regular, incremental improvements in the manufacturing process.<br />
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How does Kaizen help?<br />
Combines the collective talents of a company to create an engine for continually eliminating waste from manufacturing processes.<br />
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<b>Kanban (Pull System)</b></div>
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What is Kanban?<br />
A method of regulating the flow of goods both within the factory and with outside suppliers and customers. Based on automatic replenishment through signal cards that indicate when more goods are needed.<br />
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How does Kanban help?<br />
Eliminates waste from inventory and overproduction. Can eliminate the need for physical inventories (instead relying on signal cards to indicate when more goods need to be ordered).<br />
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<b>KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)</b></div>
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What are KPIs?</div>
Metrics designed to track and encourage progress towards critical goals of the organization. Strongly promoted KPIs can be extremely powerful drivers of behavior – so it is important to carefully select KPIs that will drive desired behavior.<br />
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How do KPIs help?<br />
The best manufacturing KPIs:<br />
Are aligned with top-level strategic goals (thus helping to achieve those goals)<br />
Are effective at exposing and quantifying waste (OEE is a good example)<br />
Are readily influenced by plant floor employees (so they can drive results)<br />
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<b>Muda (Waste)</b></div>
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What is Muda?<br />
Anything in the manufacturing process that does not add value from the customer’s perspective.<br />
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How does Muda help?<br />
It doesn’t. Muda means ‘waste’. The elimination of muda (waste) is the primary focus of lean manufacturing.<br />
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<b>Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)</b></div>
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What is Overall Equipment Effectiveness?<br />
Framework for measuring productivity loss for a given manufacturing process. Three categories of loss are tracked:<br />
Availability (e.g. downtime)<br />
Performance (e.g. slow cycles)<br />
Quality (e.g. rejects)<br />
How does Overall Equipment Effectiveness help?<br />
Provides a benchmark/baseline and a means to track progress in eliminating waste from a manufacturing process. 100% OEE means perfect production (manufacturing only good parts, as fast as possible, with no downtime).<br />
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<b>PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act)</b></div>
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What is PDCA?<br />
An iterative methodology for implementing improvements:<br />
Plan (establish plan and expected results)<br />
Do (implement plan)<br />
Check (verify expected results achieved)<br />
Act (review and assess; do it again)<br />
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How does PDCA help?<br />
Applies a scientific approach to making improvements:<br />
Plan (develop a hypothesis)<br />
Do (run experiment)<br />
Check (evaluate results)<br />
Act (refine your experiment; try again)<br />
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<b>Poka-Yoke (Error Proofing)</b></div>
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What is Poka-Yoke?<br />
Design error detection and prevention into production processes with the goal of achieving zero defects.<br />
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How does Poka-Yoke help?<br />
It is difficult (and expensive) to find all defects through inspection, and correcting defects typically gets significantly more expensive at each stage of production.<br />
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<b>Root Cause Analysis</b></div>
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What is Root Cause Analysis?<br />
A problem solving methodology that focuses on resolving the underlying problem instead of applying quick fixes that only treat immediate symptoms of the problem. A common approach is to ask why five times – each time moving a step closer to discovering the true underlying problem.<br />
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How does Root Cause Analysis help?<br />
Helps to ensure that a problem is truly eliminated by applying corrective action to the “root cause” of the problem.<br />
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<b>Single-Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)</b></div>
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What is Single-Minute Exchange of Dies?<br />
Reduce setup (changeover) time to less than 10 minutes. Techniques include:<br />
Convert setup steps to be external (performed while the process is running)<br />
Simplify internal setup (e.g. replace bolts with knobs and levers)<br />
Eliminate non-essential operations<br />
Create Standardized Work instructions<br />
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How does Single-Minute Exchange of Dies help?<br />
Enables manufacturing in smaller lots, reduces inventory, and improves customer responsiveness.<br />
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<b>Six Big Losses</b></div>
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What is Six Big Losses?<br />
Six categories of productivity loss that are almost universally experienced in manufacturing:<br />
Breakdowns<br />
Setup/Adjustments<br />
Small Stops<br />
Reduced Speed<br />
Startup Rejects<br />
Production Rejects.<br />
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How does Six Big Losses help?<br />
Provides a framework for attacking the most common causes of waste in manufacturing.<br />
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<b>SMART Goals</b></div>
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What are SMART Goals?</div>
Goals that are: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Specific.<br />
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How do SMART Goals help?<br />
Helps to ensure that goals are effective.<br />
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<b>Standardized Work</b></div>
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What is Standardized Work?<br />
Documented procedures for manufacturing that capture best practices (including the time to complete each task). Must be “living” documentation that is easy to change.<br />
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How does Standardized Work help?<br />
Eliminates waste by consistently applying best practices. Forms a baseline for future improvement activities.<br />
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<b>Takt Time</b></div>
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What is Takt Time?<br />
The pace of production (e.g. manufacturing one piece every 34 seconds) that aligns production with customer demand. Calculated as Planned Production Time / Customer Demand.<br />
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How does Takt Time help?<br />
Provides a simple, consistent and intuitive method of pacing production. Is easily extended to provide an efficiency goal for the plant floor (Actual Pieces / Target Pieces).<br />
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<b>Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)</b></div>
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What is Total Productive Maintenance?<br />
A holistic approach to maintenance that focuses on proactive and preventative maintenance to maximize the operational time of equipment. TPM blurs the distinction between maintenance and production by placing a strong emphasis on empowering operators to help maintain their equipment.<br />
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How does Total Productive Maintenance help?<br />
Creates a shared responsibility for equipment that encourages greater involvement by plant floor workers. In the right environment this can be very effective in improving productivity (increasing up time, reducing cycle times, and eliminating defects).<br />
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<b>Value Stream Mapping</b></div>
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What is Value Stream Mapping?<br />
A tool used to visually map the flow of production. Shows the current and future state of processes in a way that highlights opportunities for improvement.<br />
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How does Value Stream Mapping help?<br />
Exposes waste in the current processes and provides a roadmap for improvement through the future state.<br />
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<b>Visual Factory</b></div>
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What is Visual Factory?<br />
Visual indicators, displays and controls used throughout manufacturing plants to improve communication of information.<br />
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How does Visual Factory help?<br />
Makes the state and condition of manufacturing processes easily accessible and very clear – to everyone.</div>
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Visual management is a huge part of Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. It is the ability to manage everything in your factory (and support areas) visually.Visual management is a way to visually communicate expectations, performance, standards or warnings in a way that requires little or no prior training to interpret.</div>
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Visual Management provides real time information of workplace through different visual information aids. Visual Management is involved in all the areas of business, related to Quality, Delivery, Cost, KPIs, work methods, material, machine & equipment and above all, manpower.</div>
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Any business can never survive unless its creates value for its customers. But first, it will have to create value for itself in which having support of its customers is the most critical requirement. </div>
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<b>Value for a business</b> organization means value in different forms that determine its health & well being. In numerical terms, it can be assets whose value can be expressed in monetary figures & intangible things like patents, copyrights, brands, intellect, etc. </div>
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<b>Value for customers</b> is defined as what the customer is buying or paying for. Value for the customer is the measure of the benefits gained from a product or service relative to the cost paid by the customer. It is imperative that the product or service is made available to the customer with the right quality, right price, at the right place & at the right time. But all this requires answering some very important questions: </div>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">What are the important factors for the customer while making the buying decision?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">What carrries more importance for the customer - cost or benefits?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Are you capable of delivering that matches the customer needs?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Is your competition capable of delivering that matches the customer needs?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "open sans";"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Are you capable of delivering more than your competition?</span></span></li>
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In light of the above mentioned points, a business organization can create value for its customers throuh:</div>
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<li>Giving more benefits to its customers than its competitors, at the same or nearby level price. The extra benefits could be a better service, a better buying experience, extra features in product or service, etc.</li>
<li> Creating Ease of Buying & Ease of Payment for the customer, through multiple ways that the customer can choose as per his requirement</li>
<li>Creating a good image of the company reflecting ethics, honesty & trust with which the customer would like to be associated with by buying its products or services</li>
<li>Valuing the relationship with its partners and dealers & effectively utilizing their knowledge of the market for mutual benefit</li>
<li>Most importantly, providing a product or service that fulfills the customer requirements, with ease of use</li>
<li>Creating Ease of Contact for the customer through multiple ways that the customer can choose as per his requirement. The customer is easily able to contact the business organization or its representatives for any support or issue. Its imperative that the support is provided to the customer within the committed time and resolving the issue to the customer satisfaction. </li>
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Value for Business & Customer</h2>
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border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: block; height: 1px; margin: -1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;">hashtag</span><span class="hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">customer</span></span></a><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255 , 255 , 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. But value has different perspectives for both - while for business it means </span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23CustomerSatisfaction" id="ember19959" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_self"><span class="hashtag-a11y ember-view" id="ember19960" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: block; height: 1px; margin: -1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;">hashtag</span><span class="hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CustomerSatisfaction</span></span></a><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255 , 255 , 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more </span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23sales" id="ember19963" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_self"><span class="hashtag-a11y ember-view" id="ember19964" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: block; height: 1px; margin: -1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;">hashtag</span><span class="hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sales</span></span></a><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255 , 255 , 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> & <a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23profitability" id="ember19967" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span class="hashtag-a11y ember-view" id="ember19968" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: inline !important; height: 1px; margin: -1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;">hashtag</span></span></a></span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23profitability" id="ember19967" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_self"><span class="hashtag-a11y ember-view" id="ember19968" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">profitability</span></span></a><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255 , 255 , 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and for customer it means fulfillment of their needs & wants....
</span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23CustomerValue" id="ember19971" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_self"><span class="hashtag-a11y ember-view" id="ember19972" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: block; height: 1px; margin: -1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px;">hashtag</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In today's rapidly changing </span><a class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-link m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords%3D%2523business&source=gmail&ust=1533199774237000&usg=AFQjCNHuoU-Wu1aweOKCirOBm0TsdhmLfw" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23business" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13709" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-a11y m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13710" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#</span><span class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">business</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> environment, an </span><a class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-link m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords%3D%2523organization&source=gmail&ust=1533199774237000&usg=AFQjCNFhyNdqUHSDgSMItV2-51pjL5GsCA" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23organization" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13713" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-a11y m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13714" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#</span><span class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">organization</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> must be </span><a class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-link m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords%3D%2523lean&source=gmail&ust=1533199774237000&usg=AFQjCNGS1lJxl2Lx7tkz80oZGjz7R6fSIA" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23lean" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13717" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-a11y m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13718" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#</span><span class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lean</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "fira sans" , "ubuntu" , "oxygen" , "oxygen sans" , "cantarell" , "droid sans" , "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-link m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords%3D%2523agile&source=gmail&ust=1533199774237000&usg=AFQjCNG6jevLS_UTSif567vmb08EKfwZMg" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/topic/?keywords=%23agile" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13721" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span class="m_-8521808006758157516gmail-hashtag-a11y m_-8521808006758157516ember-view" id="m_-8521808006758157516ember13722" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; 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Problems in business organizations are a common phenomenon these days. Most of the business organizations try to solve these problems with a one off action. But another problem crops up somewhere else in the organization. The problems keep on occurring again and again unless and until the business organization is forced to take some drastic action. Meanwhile, while the problems keep on occurring repeatedly, important organization resources are deployed to keep on solving these problems rather than focusing their efforts towards advancement of business and finding ways to help the organization to grow and expand.</div>
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Solving business problems with such actions is like grabbing a balloon filled with air with hands to try to suppress the balloon. One grabs one side of the balloon; the air escapes to some other part and collects over there. Again taking action in that part is repeating the same process again. Hence, it is imperative for a business organization to have a structured way of solving business problems.</div>
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Lean principles combined with Six Sigma provide an excellent way of solving all kind of business problems in an organized manner. Business problems should be handled in a structured manner and it is advisable to establish a proper structure to handle these problems and make decision making easy for leaders to decide whether the problem requires a full Six Sigma project or can be solved by just applying the Lean principles. An important feature in this is to have knowledge whether solution for the problem found is known or not known.</div>
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Let us understand this with the help of an example. If a particular process is not achieving its target and the problem is known to the management or people working in the project, then a simple exercise of Value Stream Mapping may be enough to solve the problem. It would identify all the Non-Value Added items in the process flow and design steps to eliminate them. Only those steps would remain in the process which are either productive or are required for completion or act as input of another productive step. Similarly, if a problem is occurring and there is no idea about why the problem is occurring, then it is better to undertake a full Six Sigma project in this case. The problem will be completely dissected to come at a conclusion and arrive at a Goal statement. The data so collected will be fully analyzed to arrive at conclusions and implement an action plan to improve the process and eliminate the problems in the process.</div>
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Lack of a problem solving & improvement structure in a business organization leads to complacency which may be ok when things are right but can prove to be disastrous when things are not looking good. Establishing such a structure leads to a culture change where every person working in the organization constantly looks to do his job better with improvements. Such a culture eventually makes a small and mid-sized company the leader in their fields of business.</div>
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Is Data Really Required in Business?</h1>
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Have you ever considered how a business takes decisions and make investments running into millions of dollars? How a company spends millions on launching a new product even when there is no guarantee whether it will be successful or not? The answer lies in just one word: Risk.</div>
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Risk is often described in business parlance as the probability of loss, negative occurrence or possibility of injury, damage or any other threat that may cause loss to oneself or one’s assets. Still, business organizations take risks as it is a common business practice while taking business decisions. This is because reward is the return for taking risks, it is often said that “The higher the risk, the higher is the reward”.</div>
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But do you think that business organizations would be so foolish to take decisions which may cause loss to them and may even threaten their existence? No, this is not the reality because business organizations take risks in business decisions only after evaluating the pros and cons of each factor. What helps the business organizations take such risks is the assessment made by them by evaluating certain factors which is provided by the data. Availability of data helps the business organizations to have confidence in the business decisions taken by them – the more the data is available, the more confidence the business will have about the risks taken by it.</div>
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Let us understand this through an example. Suppose we have a glass half filled with water. The entire glass represents our understanding of a business decision. The available water (half filled) represents that data available with us while the empty part of glass represents the risk factor. The half filled glass representing the data gives us the confidence that we have in making decisions as we can evaluate all the factors, taking into consideration all the negative consequences (possibility of loss) and positive consequences (possibility of rewards or profits). Thus we have to assume the factors for the half filled part of glass also (risk) based on our analysis of the part which is filled (data). To cover this risk, it is imperative that we should get as much data as possible to build our confidence.</div>
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This is why companies spend millions to collect data from its customers, agents, dealers and others either through its own efforts or purchases the data from specialized companies such as market research organizations. This data is then evaluated and analyzed using specialized tools such as QFD (Quality Function Deployment) and FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) to assess the customer requirements and risks associated with the decisions taken by the business organizations for developing products and services for fulfilling these customer requirements. Tools such as QFD and FMEA helps the business organizations have confidence in their business decisions as all the risks associated with these have been carefully evaluated and steps being taken to either eliminate these risks or minimize their occurrence.</div>
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Value Added and Non-Value Added Activities in Business Processes</h1>
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Lean is one of the most dynamic methodologies that aim at always looking at improvements in all business processes. In Lean, all business processes are critically examined to identify waste and non-value added activities and taking steps to eliminate them. Waste in lean is considered to be like poison which has to be eliminated at all costs. Business activities in Lean are divided into two broad categories – Value Added and Non-Value Added.</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Value Added activities</span>: These activities are those which adds value to a business process or product and for which customer is willing to pay. Value Added activities help in converting a product from a state of raw material to a finished product in the least possible time, at minimum costs. It aims at completing a business activity correctly the very first time, and helping the business to deliver the product or service while fully conforming to customer requirements or specifications.</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Non-Value Added activities</span>: These are those which do not add any value to the product or service but are an inherent part of the process. Customers are not willing to pay for such services. These activities prove to be a burden on the organization and affect its efficiency. Valuable resources in the organization are engaged in completing these activities despite the fact that such activity is slowing the progress of the organization.</div>
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There are several examples of Non-Value Added activities found commonly among different organizations. Some of the most commonly found are:</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unnecessary paper work within or in between departments which is not required</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rework due to defects found in products</li>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Services to customers(inside and outside) not properly delivered leading to customer dissatisfaction</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unnecessary storage of raw materials or finished goods or storing more than required</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Important Organization resources such as expensive machinery or labor lying idle or waiting for work as inputs not delivered on time</li>
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Non-Value Added activities cause customer dissatisfaction by late delivery of goods and services which affect the credibility of the company as it is not able to deliver as per the committed/planned schedule. Also, the cost of such products and services is much more which ultimately customer is paying for. In such a scenario, customers will only stay with the company till the time they are able to find a suitable alternative.</div>
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Companies having Non-Value Added activities may survive in monopolistic conditions but such companies are rare to find in today’s world where efficiency and profitability are the benchmarks. Similarly, companies where efficiency and excellence is given foremost importance survive through all highs and lows of business cycles and continue to prosper long after their competitors have bitten dust. </div>
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Which is the Real Waste in Lean?</h1>
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Almost everyone who has heard of Lean identifies waste in Lean as 7 waste or Muda (as identified under the original Toyota Production System). It is often said that almost all organizations have one or more of the 7 waste in their business processes.</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Motion: Unnecessary Movement of workers that does not add any or little value to the process</li>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Overproduction: Processing more than that is required and adds no value to the process</li>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muri:</span> It is the Waste of unreasonableness or overburden on a person or machine. It concerns the inability of the process to perform as per customer demand. It is also associated with the under-utilization of resources (workers, material & equipment). While overburden on workers & equipment results in stress & breakdowns, under-utilization results in workers & equipment lying idle or waiting for work.</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mura:</span> Mura refers to waste of variation or unevenness in production volume, which broadly means unplanned utilization of resources. In large manufacturing organizations, production is done at a set pace and a large inventory is maintained to deal with sudden spikes in demand. But the same large inventory proves to be a huge liability whenever demand falls.</div>
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The real cause for waste in business processes is Muri & Mura, which becomes visible in any one or more forms of Muda or 7 waste. Let us understand this with an example. Mura or Unevenness in production results in scenario where at the starting days of a production cycle (weekly or monthly), most of the workers and equipment either don’t work or work very slowly. As the time of production cycle end is near, workers tend to work faster with equipment to meet the production targets. Many times, this may create scenario where workers work on overtime. Similarly, extra burden on machinery may increase their maintenance costs and breakdowns. All this increases the production costs and also leads to creating of defects and other waste in the process.</div>
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Improvement Projects - Are they Really Needed?</h1>
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Problems in business organizations are a common phenomenon these days. Most of the business organizations try to solve these problems with a one off action. But another problem crops up somewhere else in the organization. The problems keep on occurring again and again unless and until the business organization is forced to take some drastic action. Meanwhile, while the problems keep on occurring repeatedly, important organization resources are deployed to keep on solving these problems rather than focusing their efforts towards advancement of business and finding ways to help the organization to grow and expand and this is the reason why Importance of Identifying the Improvement Project should be properly taken care of.</div>
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Solving business problems with such actions is like grabbing a balloon filled with air with hands to try to suppress the balloon. One grabs one side of the balloon; the air escapes to some other part and collects over there. Again taking action in that part is repeating the same process again. Hence, it is imperative for a business organization to have a structured way of solving business problems.</div>
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Lean principles combined with Six Sigma provide an excellent way of solving all kind of business problems in an organized manner. Business problems should be handled in a structured manner and it is advisable to establish a proper structure to handle these problems and make decision making easy for leaders to decide whether the problem requires a full Six Sigma project or can be solved by just applying the Lean principles. An important feature in this is to have knowledge whether solution for the problem found is known or not known.</div>
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Let us understand this with the help of an example. If a particular process is not achieving its target and the problem is known to the management or people working in the project, then a simple exercise of Value Stream Mapping may be enough to solve the problem. It would identify all the Non-Value Added items in the process flow and design steps to eliminate them. Only those steps would remain in the process which are either productive or are required for completion or act as input of another productive step. Similarly, if a problem is occurring and there is no idea about why the problem is occurring, then it is better to undertake a full Six Sigma project in this case. The problem will be completely dissected to come at a conclusion and arrive at a Goal statement. The data so collected will be fully analyzed to arrive at conclusions and implement an action plan to improve the process and eliminate the problems in the process.</div>
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Lack of a problem solving & improvement structure in a business organization leads to complacency which may be ok when things are right but can prove to be disastrous when things are not looking good. Establishing such a structure leads to a culture change where every person working in the organization constantly looks to do his job better with improvements. Such a culture eventually makes a small and mid-sized company the leader in their fields of business.</div>
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Can Lean bring value to your business strategy?</h1>
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Business Strategy aims at “Creating Value in Business” and then “Sustaining it over a period of time” till it is considered to be relevant. Many companies who fail to fine tune their business strategies as per the changing times and changing customer perceptions often become part of history. For example – Let’s make a simple comparison.</div>
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Just have a look at the names of companies listed in Dow Jones Index when it started in 1896 to the current year 2016, encompassing over 120 years of modern history. You would be astonished to see that only one company “General Electric” is still present, to this day. There had been many companies who monopolized and ruled their specific business areas but then faded into memories due to their inability to adapt to changing times and change their business strategies as per changing market conditions and customer perceptions.</div>
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What a business organization needs to survive over a longer period is to focus on “Value” in all its policies and actions, as per the strategy map prepared by the organization. Lean focuses on creating value in business processes and providing the customers the product that it needs at minimum price, without compromising on quality. How it is done is very well known that lean eliminates all the waste or Non-Value Added elements from business/production processes to remove all inefficiencies.</div>
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But sadly, many organizations just focus on the process part and utilize Lean principles only to eliminate the waste in the processes, i.e, focus just on the operational part of business. Business operations work only under the roadmap or frame-work prepared by the people who prepare the business policies and strategies on which the business runs. Leaving out Lean from this very crucial part is severely limiting its huge potential that it can bring about in the business. It is just like in the movie “Captain America” where he is seen just dancing and singing alongside pretty girls in the beginning because decision makers were not aware about his superhuman capabilities. In business arena, another example is the inability or ignorance of the Xerox of the huge potential that GUI (Graphical User Interface) had in the PC business. Although Xerox developed the GUI but Apple and Microsoft made their fortunes using it.</div>
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What is needed for business organizations to survive and thrive in business arena is to incorporate Lean Principles in their business strategies and policies. Once the focus is on value creation and free flow of value in the organization, without any hindrances and obstructions, the amount of benefits and positive outcomes that the organization will experience are simply limitless. Not only the preparation and implementation of business strategy, the results of free flow of value creation will transform the whole organization and catapult it into the bigger league where other smaller organizations will aspire to become like it one day.</div>
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Kaizen vs Kaikaku</h1>
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As we all know, <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kaizen</span> is an important weapon in the Lean Methodology arsenal which focuses on bringing about <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">small incremental improvements</span> in production/business processes over a period of time. The emphasis is primarily on solving team or process related problems.</div>
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But apart from Lean Practitioners and people who possess some knowledge about Lean principles, very few people know that Lean has another concept known as <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kaikaku </span>which emphasizes on bringing about <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">radical change</span> in production/business processes in a very short time period of time. The improvement in processes can be as high as 30% to 50%, brought primarily by factors such as installation of new equipment, process re-designing, new production methods & strategies, etc.</div>
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Does Your Organization Follow this Approach for Problem Solving?</h1>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Problems turn into crisis - Warning signs of problems affecting business are either ignored or not known due to absence of any structure to recognize them. Action is taken only when problems turn into crisis situations requiring massive firefighting efforts</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance Drop - As so many problems are dealt inadequately and virtually no improvement effort being made and many opportunities lost, the overall performance of the organization drops drastically many times threatening its very existence in the marketplace</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Celebrating Troubleshooters - Due to so many crisis situations, many people specializing in troubleshooting and firefighting emerge to deal with these situations. Company also celebrate and recognize such people over those who advocate a Process Management approach</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shortage of Time - The Problem Solvers in the company are so busy in their tasks that they have absolutely no time to look into the problems of the business.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Half baked Solutions - Many problems are apparently solved by just treating the symptoms rather than looking at the root cause of the problem and fixing it</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Re-occurrence of Problems - As root cause of the problem is not treated, many old problems simply reoccur or contribute to other problems and making them more serious</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Urgency preferred - Occurrence of crisis in different parts of business is a common thing in such companies where rules are made just for formality sake. Long term Improvement efforts and bringing in a process management culture are frequently impacted to deal with these crisis situations.</li>
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If any one or more of the above symptoms are present in your organization, then it is suffering from Arsonist Fireman Syndrome (AFS) or Firefighting as it is commonly known. It is a type of negative culture affecting many business organizations which focuses on “Firefighting” (constantly dealing with problems). Such companies move from crisis to crisis. A Fireman emerges who douses the fire earning the appreciation of the Top Management. Almost no effort is made to evaluate why the crisis occurred in the first place. Eventually, this become the norm rather than exception in the company and Firemen are given preference over all other people.</div>
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Has Innovation been compromised for Standardization?</h1>
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Every company in modern times strives to have standardization in its processes. In a Lean Organization, Lean implementation generally starts with 5S implementation. The 5S in English being Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize & Sustain.</div>
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Theoretically, 5S is a repetitive cycle where new improved methods are found & implemented & improvements found are sustained in the process, thus completing the cycle. The same improved methods sometime later on become as routine working methods & are challenged with new working methods & are adopted once the newer methods show improvements & are thus accepted as new standards, And this cycle goes on & on.</div>
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But human tendency is afraid of change. Many organizations starting Lean implementation devise or find new improved work methods which are very enthusiastically adopted as new standards. But after sometime when the new methods become routine, if anyone tries to challenge the status quo & proposes or wants to implement new methods or a new innovation promising improvement, the same person or process is treated with disdain or outright hostility. The most common excuse given is that "We are already working with improved methods & they have been converted into standards". Notwithstanding the fact that standards are temporary & improvement is permanent. Hence, this gives rise to a very fundamental question - "Has Innovation been compromised for Standardization?"</div>
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Jasmeet Kohlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17701374948297061114noreply@blogger.com0