BOS Process
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Overcommunicate!
Keeping your team well informed promotes better morale, which is a great outcome!
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What’s an OPIP Again?
It takes a plan to burn down hours and decrease the production cycle or achieve any of our other goals in the company. Enter the OPIP!
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SmartSheets, Schedules and Priorities
If you have planned well and are meeting your deadlines, you will complete projects and your team and the company will benefit.
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OPIP. Another Acronym?
What is an OPIP? As the name would imply, it’s a plan that you build to make your business, department or process run more efficiently and for less cost.
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What Is a Countermeasure?
When I am talking about a countermeasure, I mean an immediate action taken to stop something from reoccurring.
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The Dashboard Relationship
Remember, the reason that we measure KPIs (performance indicators) is to learn where in our business we are having trouble so we can fix it.
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Dashboards – A Management Tool
Dealing with the facts – the data – helps us target changes where and when they need to be implemented.
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Dashboards – The Visual Pulse of Our Company
This viz-board makes it easy to see how your team connects from your point of execution to the larger company goals.
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Balanced Scorecard
We all have a role to play in our company’s success so we all need to know how we measure up!
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Meeting Organization
As part of our Business Operating System (BOS), we need an efficient meeting structure that works for our company.
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Cascading Communications
Well-run, timely meetings involving only the necessary people can make an organization much stronger by improving communication.
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Cascading – A Method to Communicate Targets and Progress
To hit the targets, all of us in the company need to understand how we each, as individuals and as our unit, contribute to meeting them.
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Let’s Solve the Problem
Really good problem solvers avoid the trap of providing only one potential cause because they have learned that a cause is often not obvious.
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Problem Solving – Root Cause and Corrective Actions (RCCA)
Problem solving is an important tool at our disposal to help improve the direction of our company. We all should participate in it when we have the chance.
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We’ve Made It Around Once
The power of our Plan-Do-Check-Act (PCDA) model is that it can be applied to any part of our business.
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“ACT” – Make a Change Based on the “CHECK”
It takes some work to dig in and understand the root cause of the problem that kept you from achieving your goal. That process is called problem solving.
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“CHECK” – Did We Do What We Said We Were Going to “DO?”
One of the traits of a strong and healthy company is predictability. Reaching our goals is one way of demonstrating our predictability.
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What to “DO”
The decisions you make at the point of execution are usually more important and have a greater impact than the decisions I make daily.
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Inputs to the Business Operating System
A successful company makes plans far out into the future to be ready for getting the work done.
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Plan Do Check Act
We should all be planning, doing, checking and acting to ensure we safely execute high-quality work.