Welcome to the Performance Drivers Business Improvement Newsletter.
The goal of each newsletter is to keep you informed of the latest business improvement initiatives and to give you tangible tips from our "Grey-Haired Gurus" ™ on making change work in your business.
Improving the Bottom Line
Can a continuous improvement (CI) programme result in productivity improvements of 1% per month? If so, how?
Improvement tools such as Lean, BPI, 6Sigma, MOS, RACI are often used in CI programs. Why are some companies successful and others fail to achieve the results? I have heard all too often that "we have invested time and money in training but little has been achieved or changed".
The answers are clear but the solutions can be elusive. A company should be “operationally stable” prior to the implementation of a CI program. Before we jump into “operationally stable” definitions, let’s look at CI. The aim of a continuous improvement culture is to embed this “process” into day to day practices. When CI is part of your daily business as usual; it’s owned by managers, supervisors and operators alike.
Below is a short how to guide on becoming operationally stable or ready for an improvement programme that delivers results and is sustainable. The process itself produces great $$ improvement results and often uses a mixture of the “improvement tools” mentioned above.
Click here to read the full article on our website
November Business Tips
We asked 6 of our "Grey Haired Gurus"™ for their best management tip; something that made a big difference in an operation and fast! Here is the first better business tips.
Click here to read November Business Tips