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Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 4 of 6- Lean Manifesto

2/22/2019

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Born at Toyota, Lean is a lighter, leaner way to achieve results. A Lean process is ruthless about getting rid of errors, steps, processes and people that don’t add value to a company’s products or services.

Lean is all about focussing on customer needs, reducing defects, creating waste-free processes that result in maximum ROI and Customer value.

Although Lean defined Toyota Production System (TPS) in 1940s, with time, Lean has been extended to other manufacturing verticals such as- electronics, cement, construction, food & beverages, pharmaceuticals, personal products, engineering etc. 
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The best part about Lean is that, Lean brings in a 3:1 rate of returns for any organization regardless of industry sector, that implements Lean correctly.

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​Lean Manifesto:

  • Focus on customer: Lean is based on Voice of Customer (VOC). If a step doesn’t add value to a company’s product or service from the customer’s point of view, LEAN strips it out.
  • Eliminating waste: Traditional Lean weeded out 7 types of waste- Over-production, Over-processing, Defects, Delays, Unnecessary movement, Unutilized resources, Unnecessary inventory. With time, Lean philosophy has under gone changes too, that is changes for the better. Present day LEAN methodology eliminates 14 different types of waste.
  • Just-in-time (JIT) attitude. Producing anything in anticipation of customer needs is a waste as per Lean philosophy. Instead you produce only when there are orders in hand as in Kanban's pull approach.
  • LEAN works with ‘pull’ system Vs ‘push’ system.
  • Visual representation: Lean uses Value Stream Maps to visually draw out processes and Visual Management to execute and sustain benefits of LEAN processes.
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Which companies can use Lean?

LEAN can be implemented by Manufacturing as well as Service based companies.

LEAN is best for incremental improvements, organizations that focus on their people and culture, companies that want a less mathematical and more flexible approach than Six Sigma. But you can strive for a break-through Six Sigma improvement by eliminating waste Lean-style.

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In the next part of this article series I shall discuss another time-tested business improvement methodology;
TQM
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Related reading:

  1. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips and Tricks Part 1 of 6
  2. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips and Tricks- Part 2 of 6: Six Sigma in a Nutshell
  3. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 3 of 6- Agile in Nutshell for Improving Sales & Marketing of Products and Services
  4. Continuous Improvement for Human Resources (HR) department via Lean and Kaizen
  5. Lean Manufacturing in Food, Drug, Cosmetics & Chemical Industry

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Dr. Shruti Bhat is an award-winning Business Excellence Leader, Global Continuous Improvement Mastermind, Best-selling Author and Speaker. She is Continuous Improvement Advisor to several start-ups, mid-size and growing firms in Canada, USA, India, Africa and Emerging markets. She has authored eight business books and is an invited speaker at several national and international conferences, symposia and workshops.

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Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 3 of 6- Agile in Nutshell for Improving Sales & Marketing of Products and Services

2/20/2019

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Originally developed to address the pitfalls of traditional project management when applied to software development projects; Agile is now an approach you can adopt for process improvement projects in almost any industry.

Instead of putting majority of efforts into one long-range plan, Agile operates on a succession of tiny ‘sprints’ with significant measuring and re-evaluation between (and during) each sprint.
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Agile management methodology is an excellent tool for bringing forth Breakthrough Improvement. Agile can be used to bring forth Continuous Improvement too. Moreover, Agile can be used native or can be combined with Lean or Kaizen to augment benefits achieved with Lean, Kaizen implementation.

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Agile Manifesto:

  • Short delivery time: Milestones are rarely more than a few weeks out.
  • Individuals and interactions over process and tools. Working software over comprehensive documentation.
  • Focus on customer needs: The desires of the customer take front and center in determining the order of processes, projects, product releases, new features and related decisions.
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
  • Responding to change over following a plan.
  • Customer involvement: Instead of just involving customers at the start and end of a process, Agile teams communicate with them throughout the entire creation process.
  • Minimal documentation: If the document doesn’t directly enable the creation of results, an Agile environment usually foregoes it.​​
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​Which companies may use Agile?

Agile is best for technology companies, smaller teams, companies that are (or can become) comfortable with a rapid pace and companies with products that constantly change, as opposed to a relatively standard product line that is constantly reproduced.

In the next part of this article series, I shall discuss the most important and extremely popular Business Improvement methodology: LEAN
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Related reading:

  1. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips and Tricks Part 1 of 6
  2. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips and Tricks- Part 2 of 6: Six Sigma in a Nutshell
  3. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 4 of 6- Lean Manifesto
  4. Continuous Improvement for Human Resources (HR) department via Lean and Kaizen
  5. Lean Manufacturing in Food, Drug, Cosmetics & Chemical Industry
About the Author: Shruti Bhat PhD, MBA, Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
 
Dr. Shruti Bhat is an award-winning Business Excellence Leader, Global Continuous Improvement Mastermind, Best-selling Author and Speaker. She is Continuous Improvement Advisor to several start-ups, mid-size and growing firms in Canada, USA, India, Africa and Emerging markets. She has authored eight business books and is an invited speaker at several national and international conferences, symposia and workshops.

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Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips and Tricks- Part 2 of 6: Six Sigma in a Nutshell

2/19/2019

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​Six Sigma was introduced by Motorola in 1980s as a business process improvement technique that works on performance improvements via lowering or eliminating defects & variations. By definition, a Six Sigma process implies 3.4 or lower defects per million opportunities or efficiency gains of 70% or higher.

If you can’t measure it mathematically, it’s not a Six Sigma process​
Six Sigma = Saving Costs; Six Sigma ≠ Avoiding Costs

​Also, if you don't save over 70% of cost or reduce over 70% of defects it is not a Six Sigma improvement.

Six Sigma has a financial impact to EBIT (Earning before income tax) or NPBIT (Net profit before income tax) or a significant strategic value.

When a business problem is selected to become a potential Six Sigma project, it goes through a critical metamorphosis- first from a practical business problem into a statistical problem, then into a statistical solution and finally into a practical solution. When a business problem is stated in statistics language, one ensures use of data to solve the problem.
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Which organizations benefit from Six Sigma implementation?

Six Sigma is best suited for organizations that are totally committed to Continuous Improvement. 

​Although Six Sigma was designed for manufacturing-based companies, it is equally effective and efficient to service industries. A classic example is Six Sigma in service sector is Six Sigma application to airline business.

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In the next part of this article series, I shall discuss another important Business Process Improvement methodology; Agile! Part 3 of this article series will touch upon Agile in Nutshell for Improving Sales & Marketing of Products and Services.

Related reading:

  1. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips and Tricks Part 1 of 6
  2. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 3 of 6- Agile in Nutshell for Improving Sales & Marketing of Products and Services
  3. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 4 of 6- Lean Manifesto
  4. ​How to develop a culture of ‘Continuous Improvement’ in an organization?
  5. 8 Steps to becoming a Customer- centric organization
  6. Transforming Businesses From Good to Great via Continuous Improvement- Article by Dr. Shruti Bhat published in Express Pharma
About the Author: Shruti Bhat PhD, MBA, Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
 
Dr. Shruti Bhat is an award-winning Business Excellence Leader, Global Continuous Improvement Mastermind, Best-selling Author and Speaker. She is Continuous Improvement Advisor to several start-ups, mid-size and growing firms in Canada, USA, India, Africa and Emerging markets. She has authored eight business books and is an invited speaker at several national and international conferences, symposia and workshops.

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Continuous Improvement Motivational Message for Week of February 18 2019

2/18/2019

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  1. What is Lean Six Sigma methodology (in Business Process Improvement)?
  2. What is the difference between Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma Business Process Improvement Methodology?
  3. How to develop a culture of ‘Continuous Improvement’ in an organization?
  4. 7 Important tools to identify a "Quality" problem.
  5. Do's and Don'ts of Process Mapping.
  6. Continuous Improvement Case study- Improving scale-up and tech-transfer processes via Kaizen

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Popular Workshops & Webinars on 'Continuous Improvement' for Service Industries

2/14/2019

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Continuous Improvement Motivational Message for Week of February 11 2019

2/11/2019

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  2. Finding a culture for success.
  3. Continuous improvement- an enterprise's mantra to profitability
  4. What are different types of Business process improvement systems?
  5. Role of Benchmarking in Business Process Improvement


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2/9/2019

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