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Suggestions for Continuous Improvement Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Suggestions for Continuous Improvement Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Is your organization focused on continuous improvement or suffering from continuous pain because of a lack of a process for generating progress and improvement?Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Here are 4 suggestions to help you understand whether your organization is focused on continuous improvement or suffering from continuous pain because of a lack of a process for generating progress and improvement

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1. Continuous improvement is the process, NOT the results Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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If you concentrate on nurturing the process, the results will come as a natural consequence. Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Everyone has processes and every process can be improved. Unintended variation in our processes leads to undesirable variation in the outcomes of our processes. Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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The proper continuous improvement focus is to simplify our processes to reduce or eliminate these potential variations. Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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This is what makes lean manufacturing and 5-S successful—the elimination of unwanted variation.Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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2. Have the courage to take risks.Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Thomas Edison had countless failures in his work to find the ideal filament material for the incandescent light. Yet, he looked at each of those failures as “lessons that taught us what won’t work” rather than as failed experiments. Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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There will always be risks associated with change. There are no guarantees. But there are inevitable long-term risks to avoiding change as well. One can intelligently manage risk through the use of facts & data.Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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An organization that is truly committed to continuous improvement is filled with people who are comfortable with learning from what doesn’t work Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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An organization where people are afraid of consequences will never be successful at continuous improvementAntonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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3. Continuous improvement is a processAntonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Processes have owners. Owners are empowered to maintain and improve that which they own Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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4. Every day, some kind of improvement should be made somewhere in your company Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Many small, incremental improvements over time will out-achieve a few large “breakthrough” projects over the long runAntonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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They will also be easier to sustain and will probably cost less, too Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Continuous improvement is synonymous with progress. Without continuous improvement, there can be no progress, only decline as the rest of the world continues its drive to better/faster/cheaper Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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Continuous improvement is the engine that drives our economy through improved customer satisfaction, reduced variability, reduced waste and higher profits Antonius P. Bramono – [email protected]

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