Your OTIF quest: how much time do you spend per week?
If you are reading this blog post as part of your OTIF (On Time In Full) quest, let me ask you a question:
"How much time do you spend per week
Using Kaizen when you don’t have time for your routine meetings
Having a routine is a great way to consistently achieve high levels of OTIF (without blood, sweat and tears!).
However, life tends to get in the way of executing your routine.
Your OTIF journey: celebrate when you’re winning
When we start out on our OTIF (On Time In Full) improvement journeys, where we are is obvious; we're at the start. Then we make some changes to our processes,
Business processes that drive on time delivery!
Most businesses have pretty well developed business processes.
It is clear where they start, where they end and they give a good idea of what happens in the middle.
Many of them
Seriously, how do you want this improvement?
How many times have you asked for an improvement to be undertaken by your team and wondered "what on Earth happened?", when you saw the result?
It's happened to every manager
Have you lost your RAG with your improvement objectives?
At this time of year many businesses are reviewing and revising their improvement plans and business objectives. It is a natural time of year to do this and for many
Improve your OTIF performance with a limited view of (work) life
The reasons KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) work so well is that they can provide you with a focus for improvement. If you have more than 7 KPIs, however, you probably
What is stopping your business from consistently delivering on time?
There are a few ways to deliver your projects, products or services on time.
Poorly, raising the risk of customer dissatisfaction.Moderately, but not differentiating yourself from the pack.Well, but at huge
Business objectives: creating a master schedule
What are you business objectives?
Whether you have formal business objectives, or not, every business has objectives.
If you operate an ISO management system, are deploying Lean, or undertaken annual
Continuous Improvement Ideas for the Management Team
Generating continuous improvement ideas can be a challenge for many businesses. Once you have moved past the immediate problems you face in the business, where do you go from there?
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