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Keeping your team well informed promotes better morale, which is a great outcome!
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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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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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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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When I am talking about a countermeasure, I mean an immediate action taken to stop something from reoccurring.
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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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Dealing with the facts – the data – helps us target changes where and when they need to be implemented.
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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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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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As part of our Business Operating System (BOS), we need an efficient meeting structure that works for our company.
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Well-run, timely meetings involving only the necessary people can make an organization much stronger by improving communication.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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A successful company makes plans far out into the future to be ready for getting the work done.
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We should all be planning, doing, checking and acting to ensure we safely execute high-quality work.