How
does it work?
Participants are taught how to:
- Work as a team to study their work
processes using specific study-steps and techniques, and
- Reestablish the process to produce
measurable sustainable improvements.
What are the
program objectives?
- To enable teams to study work processes
and make effective decisions using facts.
- To provide the techniques and processes
to ensure that people work as a coordinated team.
- To ensure that work-study team meetings
use time efficiently and productively.
What is the program's
foundation?
- Work is a series of steps or a PROCESS.
- All processes must be studied and CONTINUOUSLY
IMPROVED.
- MEASUREMENT is the first and sustaining
key to process improvement.
- PEOPLE WHO DO THE WORK are best qualified
to be part of the process improvement team.
What results can I expect from TIPPS?
- A positive ROI
- A sound foundation for Lean or Six-Sigma
implementation.
- A format to identify, document and
improve critical business processes.
- An increased focus on improving measurements.
- Employees who move from opinion-based
decision making to fact-based decision making.
- Employees who understand the connectiveness
between their actions and the ultimate impact on the product
or service delivered to the customer.
- Improved efficiencies, reduced scrap
and waste.
- Improved service levels to both external
and internal customers.
- Reduced costs and improved profits.
What does it take to produce results
using TIPPS?
- A company or department that understands
continuously improved work processes is the life-blood of the
future.
- Participants who apply what they learned.
- Teams who prioritize time to study
work processes.
- Managers who want the people doing
the work to become the process owners. (Managers can certainly
be part of the team.)
How long does it
take?
The four-hour modules can be separated and
spread over time. The program takes three-to-four days depending
upon the material selected. Results from participants come after
approximately six weeks. The most recent case involved three work-study
teams who met for 1-2 hours a week. Six weeks later they delivered
a $332,000 annualized payback - approved by Cost Accounting.
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