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6/28/2019

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Kaizen Training for R&D, Manufacturing and Service-based Organizations

5/2/2019

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A Kaizen Transformation roadmap will help you balance two worlds- the 'right now' and the 'next future'.

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Business Process Improvement for Manufacturing & Service Industry by Dr. Shruti Bhat

4/25/2019

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One of the first people to describe business processes was Adam Smith (1776) in his famous example of a pin factory. Since then business processes have evolved and better defined. A business process defines the various activities involved in achieving a particular goal. Business processes briefly describe the chain of events that are involved in an activity or a group of activities. It is common to use a business process if the activities have an effect on current products or data and bring about production. 

 Types of business processes include- 
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  • Management processes such as Corporate governance, Strategic management, planning and implementation.
  • Operational processes, which constitute the core business and create primary value stream. Typically, they include Procurement & sourcing, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales and Customer service.
  • Supporting processes, which support the operational processes and include Finance & Accounting, Recruitment & Human Resources Management, Research and Technical support.

Some examples include invoicing, product shipping details, updating information, tracking orders, allocating budgets etc. Business processes used throughout organization, at any level, are outlined in order to improve organization in an effective and efficient way. There can be several inputs in a business process but there is always only one output or specific goal- that is to help business thrive.

Business processes are used practically in any organization and throughout an organization at any level. They are used in a variety of industries such as private, public sector, government, departments, hospitals, charities etc. Business processes are, typically outlined in order to improve an organization in an effective and efficient way.

Various computer software make it possible to create business processes on a computer, however simple business processes are just as effective when written with pen and paper. Some even find it better to jot down the processes on a piece of paper, or on several small ones, in order to kick start their creativity and thinking process. It is up to the professional (and/or organization) to decide whether a software or traditional method will work best for them. Business processes work best when there is input, support and ideas from various people that are involved in the organization (or department).

Key business processes are logically grouped related tasks and activities, independent of the organization’s structure, which utilize the resources of the organization to produce specific results. They possess measurable inputs & outputs, value addition and repeatable activity.

Tip- The effective management of key business process requires- Ownership & planning, performance metrics & control, process qualification, management and improvement methodology.

A business process always begins with a customer’s need and ends with a customer’s need fulfilment.

Customer needs change, technologies change, government policies change, competition changes and what used to be a high level of performance becomes a poor one and it’s time to replace the formerly good process with a new one- only every process cycle should have this capacity of identification, in-built in its charter.

As a practicing Business Transformation expert of many years, I am happy to mention here few case studies, nay success stories. Let me share three examples-

  1. A consumer goods manufacturing company redesigned its product deployment process, by means of which, it now manufactures goods and delivers them to its distribution center such that inventory uptake was reduced by 35%, while stock-out goods situation declined by 70%.
  2. A pharmaceutical company created a new product development process, which reduced time to market by 75%, development costs by 45% and increased productivity by 30%.
  3. An engineering goods manufacturing organization increased its product delivery targets by 350% and reduced its supply chain costs by up to 55%. Something to note in these is the simultaneous achievement of apparently incompatible goals for e.g. reducing inventory while also reducing out –of-stocks.

Traditional organizations view these as conflicting goals and trade off against another. While process managed organizations, recognize that such payoffs, are achieved by improving business processes and continually maintain their business process efficient. So how do we go about bringing on a process change?

Three main categories of business process improvement techniques, have been found to be extremely effective in managing, expanding and /or transforming businesses worldwide including USA, Canada, Latin America and the emerging economies. They are – Breakthrough improvement, Streamlined improvement and Continuous improvement. The 18 methodologies described in this book belong to one or many of these three main categories.

In this book, you will learn about: 
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  • What is a business process? What are different types of business processes? Why improve a business process?
  • 18 different business process improvement methodologies including Lean, ISO, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Capability maturity model integration (CMMI) etc.
  • Advantages of each business improvement methodology. Precautions needed before implementing a methodology at your workplace.
  • Strategic planning and risk assessments involved prior to implementing a business process improvement methodology.
  • References of their use by startups, small companies who later on became big corporate houses and Fortune 500 companies.
  • Tips to maximize positive results from executing business process improvement methodologies for your organization.

This book presents a practical way to build and improve business processes, and assists professionals whether they are learning the basics of business process improvement, planning their first improvement project, or evangelizing process-oriented thinking throughout their organization.

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​This book is for Agile entrepreneurs and business leaders involved in decision-making, directing their organization’s sustainability, profitability, and expansion. If you want some new ideas for improving your business and need to get your team involved, then this concise self-help, business management book is for you.

This book is also for professionals who are interested in making a career change and wish to embrace business process management (bpm) role.

This book is also for graduate students, budding out of colleges and are in the process of stepping into the industrial world- be it manufacturing or a service industry. This book helps them learn the various methods by which they can improve their company’s business, which in turn would help their career growths.
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This book is for all ‘business book readers’ who wish to apply business improvement methodologies to their work place in most beneficial and practical ways.


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About the author Shruti Bhat PhD, MBA, CLSSBB
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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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How to Choose a Business Process Improvement or Continuous Improvement project?

3/20/2019

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A business process improvement project within an organization usually starts out with statements like “We have this problem and we think this is the issue that must be sorted out”. In my experience, 9 times out of 10, the cause of the problem is radically different from what one ‘thinks’ is the issue. Hence, the precursor to choosing a process improvement project is to acknowledge that there is a problem whose root cause(s) must be first be identified before going any further with the process improvement idea.

Once you have an idea of the ‘real’ issue(s) or the ‘root cause(s)’ which must be addressed, you must establish what sort of improvement you are seeking. Because a goal provides the  context for determining as well as designing  an action plan. For example, the improvement steps to save $1000 via a process improvement campaign are obviously far different from the steps to save $100,000 or $1M - but that’s also the only way you can draw a project's finishing line and establish whether that project was a success.
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Also, the journey for reaching goals may vary and the execution plan documents the roadmap for achieving the goal.
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All popular continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Hoshin Kanri, Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen , Kanban etc. incorporate the same focus on setting goals that are easily understood, across an organization.
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Remember: Regardless of the Continuous Improvement methodology being employed, the goal must be set before selecting a process improvement project, because a project is largely defined by what it is supposed to accomplish.

​You may need multiple process improvement projects to achieve a set of goals or often multiple projects to achieve one single goal. A standard line of action while choosing process improvement goal is based on the study of ‘Variation Journal’.
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Variation Journal as the name implies, is a record of process variation(s) observed throughout the lifetime of a process. Upon scrutinizing this process variation record, any process that elicits a ‘Common Cause’ variation becomes a potential candidate for improvement.

Usual process improvement project pick strategies include- selecting those processes that save maximum money, are easiest or fastest to complete, solve an obnoxious problem, or a process that adversely affects employee working, or where the process improvement is hardest to accomplish (with the idea of 'getting the hard stuff out of the way' will provide serious onward momentum for all subsequent process improvement work).

Tip: Process improvement project success depends on the goal set up, as well as, a sound execution plan before you go about implementing process changes.

In my career as a Global Continuous Improvement Leader spanning a decade, I have found that, using Agile during process change implementation, paves way to guaranteed success with process improvement campaigns.

With Agile management the execution plan becomes a series of sprints instead of one long comprehensive plan.

Tip: Note that Agile works best in environments of frequent changes or development of a new product line, where new features and obstacles are constantly introduced and need to be managed.

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Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 6 of 6 : Balanced Score Card

2/27/2019

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While methodologies like Six Sigma and Agile may have mutually exclusive viewpoints on the correct way to run/ manage a process improvement project, Balanced Score Card methodology gels well with most systems.

Balanced Score Card (BSC) was developed to move the trend of focusing on financial measurements to a more holistic system of metrics across equally weighted quadrants.


Balance Score Card Manifesto includes:


  • Focus on knowledge growth: BSC focusses on bringing forth internal knowledge and growth within an organization.
  • Multiple viewpoints: BSC looks at the same data from three levels- long term, short-term and immediate or day-to-day, to keep constant vision on both big and small picture simultaneously.
  • Compatibility with other business process improvement techniques: Excellent compatibility with all popular business improvement methodologies.​
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  3. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 3 of 6- Agile in Nutshell for Improving Sales & Marketing of Products and Services
  4. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 4 of 6- Lean Manifesto
  5. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 5 of 6: TQM in a Nutshell

​A Balanced Score Card travels measurement focus across four key business areas-

  1. Financial: Revenue, net profit, expenses, payrolls and other routine monetary metrics
  2. Knowledge growth & transfer: How are employees growing in their skills? What must an organization do to impart training and development to its human resource talent pool?
  3. Productivity: How efficient is the organization? Productivity scorecard measures productivity as percentage.
  4. Customers: Customer score card focuses on voice of customer (VoC), customer retention rates, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty etc. Note that with BSC principle, the 'Customer score card' goes beyond just number of customers.

Which companies can implement Balanced Score Card?

Balance Score Card is best for any organization that measures itself, employs people with special talents or is primarily composed of knowledge workers e.g. Research departments, contract research companies, entertainment industry, fashion business etc.
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What’s your organization's score?

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Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 5 of 6: TQM in a Nutshell

2/24/2019

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TQM (Total Quality Management) actively preceded LEAN and much of its focus on waste-reduction, continuous improvement and elimination of defects has since been rolled into Lean. However, TQM by itself can provide significant business improvement even if you don’t adopt a fully LEAN approach.

​As the name implies , TQM is focused on quality.

TQM Manifesto-
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  • Quality first: In a TQM environment, everyone talks about quality, thinks about quality and measures quality at every turn.
  • Employee engagement- In a TQM workspace, if an employee notices something incorrect or causing defects, the employee has the power to stop the process, remedy it or seek remedy from experts to rectify the situation- Jidoka
  • Small improvements add up: Often improvements made via TQM are small Vs 70% or higher improvements made via Six Sigma; however inappropriate, the small gains via TQM can add up exponentially.
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Which companies can implement TQM?

TQM can be implemented by organizations from both Manufacturing as well as Service based companies. TQM is best for businesses that produce products that must meet high quality standards e.g. pharmaceuticals, airlines, healthcare & hospital management, IT, financial institutions etc.
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TQM is not for organizations that currently produce low-quality goods or with highly variable results.

In the next part of this article series, I shall discuss another important yet fairly recent business improvement methodology: Balanced Score Card.​
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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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  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. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 5 of 6: TQM in a Nutshell
  5. Business Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Tips & Tricks Part 6 of 6 : Balanced Score Card
  6. ​Continuous Improvement for Human Resources (HR) department via Lean and Kaizen
  7. Lean Manufacturing in Food, Drug, Cosmetics & Chemical Industry

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