You are in the right place if an increase in output would help, but you need to control costs
- We are often wasting resources, time, or money, due to starting jobs very early
- It seems like the more time we allow, for jobs, the more time they need
- Any talk of reducing the time allowed for jobs (lead time) is met with shocked disbelief or outrage
- Our job routings are not easily understood, nor able to be scrutinised, and they tend to expand at every review to ensure every edge case is represented
- Often when we implement solutions the elements tend to interact badly with each other
- Often solution we implement needs to be reworked to cater for overlooked flows
- Often solution, when implemented, fails to deliver control quickly
With Design, you will:
- Compile a list of long lead time events, how frequently they occur and the magnitude of the issue.
- Calculate the rough time gap and review the job/event report to identify exceptions
- Gather a departmental or capability view of the most common routings their capabilities
- Merge the routings based on transformations together to form a single map
- Choose a default schematic which you will adjust to cater for your unique system
- Plan the minimal number of control points that cater to the uniqueness of the system
With Design, you will ensure that any side effects of the change will be worth it!
While implementing Design, you will address the following common concerns people have. For example:
- People inflate safety to cover the ‘hysterical’ exceptions. Decision-makers are conditioned to assume ‘a bit longer = a bit safer’
- Often, departments have many routings, some routings are deployed much more frequently than others
- People point to their systems differences, and argue that these warrant extra control points
Let’s get started!