April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
4h 36m
English
Choosing the process to be improved. Prepare a plan for your process improvement activity. Have an executive champion involved with process reengineering. Without an executive champion, continuous improvement is probably the best that can be done. If an improvement team is involved, keep it small. Set reasonable goals for process time and accuracy. Seriously consider returning to face-to-face meetings in the process. Study the WIP and volume completed to estimate the throughput time. Sequence detailed work in process reports by age. Reduce backlogs of work in process. When the process is working to expectation, go to the next CM process. When you have all processes working to expectations, set new goals ...