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Planning and Implementing
Your Improvements
e probability of success in any major improvement eort or process
overhaul depends on having enough support for the changes. Support
must come from both management and direct labor. Without both buying
into the change, the implementation will be much more dicult and most
likely less successful.
Discussing your plan with managers rst and soliciting their help and
advice on implementing the changes is always a good idea. Explain to
them your approach to solving the problem, how you arrived at it, and
how you veried the feasibility of the change. Also explain why you are
condent in the eec