Management

Aligning Business – Processes – People

Thursday, February 18, 2010
By Vivek Naik
Aligning Business – Processes – People

This is a scene at most of the businesses where the Business goals very rarely affect the day to day processes that run the organisation or any changes in the process realign the goals to new scenario.  People are usually left on their own to figure their way out of this situation. Here Business... »

Task Standard Work

Sunday, January 24, 2010
By Vivek Naik
Task Standard Work

This is a simple tool that we used initially for the purpose of documenting sustaining the processes we had setup. It can also be used for aligning   processes to the top level strategy of the company. Most organizations will have following basic processes: Operations Supply Management Customer Relation Product Development These are any processes which have to be done routinely to... »

Lean Management – Driving force of Lean Transformation

Sunday, November 15, 2009
By Vivek Naik

How many times have you sucessfully implemented change using lean tools only to realize, after few weeks or months, that the manager and other people  have either reverted back to the old methods or have found ways to circumvent the newly established methods. We learned the hard way that lean transformation cannot be supported and... »

Leader Standard work – A bite a day keeps audit away!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
By Vivek Naik

I was reading “Audit Vs. leader Standard Work” by Mark Rosenthal and I suddenly realized what potential we have created at our work place. Over the course of the year we have grown very fond of the audits. Especially for 5S and we are developing audits  for maintaining other lean management systems put in place.... »

5S- The Foundation of Lean Manufacturing

Sunday, October 25, 2009
By Vivek Naik

5S is often misunderstood as just a mere housekeeping tool. Impact of having a successful 5S system is more profound than just keeping the place clean. 5S is the starting point of any lean transformation and forms a catalyst for culture of change. Due to the very visible results it makes the process of buy-in... »

How to write Elevator Speech

Sunday, August 9, 2009
By Vivek Naik

A simple way of writing elevator speech »

A Lens to View the Transformation – Shingo Prize Model

Thursday, August 6, 2009
By Vivek Naik

The Shingo Model is a good lens to be used at high level planing of lean transformation at any company. »

Realigning

Sunday, May 17, 2009
By Vivek Naik

As we organize our shop floor and start identifying issues that interrupt the flow of products, we will need to be very organized to efficiently solve them. As I had mentioned in my previous post Scientific Thinking is very much required. But now what is a more significant issue ,which... »

The First Wave of Change

Sunday, May 17, 2009
By Vivek Naik

It has been very beneficial to organize the plant using 5S. The basic goal of this program was to achieve stability and standardization. We used tools like 5S and Standard Work and educated ourselves as how they form the foundation for any Improvement in the future. The System that was setup, not... »

Keeping it Balanced

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
By Vivek Naik

Organization’s internal processes transformation is dependent on the resources available, but market does not wait for you . Things change so fast that most organizations are not able to keep up. Already there has been a major shift as per various studies which... »

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