Are you confident in your continuous improvement program?
I came across a Wall Street Journal article on-line recently that discusses why so many Six Sigma initiatives fail. The article suggests that to improve the odds of success, companies should:
• commit to dedicating the necessary resources,
• tie performance measures to project success,
• limit the size of the project team, and,
• maintain executive-level participation throughout.
If you’d like to learn more from the real-world example discussed, click here to read the full article. I hope you find it insightful, I know I did.
Today’s performance improvement question…
Inprove’s President
Why do so many continuous improvement (CI) programs fail to deliver the promised results?
CI is all about having an organization that is disciplined in reviewing performance, making decisions, taking actions and following up. It needs to become “the way you manage” as opposed to a series of isolated events or projects
A major shortfall for many companies is their failure to build a strong information platform that provides feedback on result and process metrics, actions taken and supervisory activity. Once this platform is in place you can then focus on the required behaviors. Doing this well helps both short term results and long term sustainability.