Identifying Ways To Make Your Business More Efficient
The hardest step in becoming leaner as a company
, to become more efficient is often the first one. Getting started is much more difficult than simply sticking with the same old plan, the status quo. It is a lot more tough to admit that there is a problem, that you know it and you are willing to do what is required to fix the problem. Sometimes the problem just isn't noticeable and it takes really looking at it to just identify it.And then, once you do spot it, it can be extremely difficult to get others to see it and agree that there really is a problem and that there is a need to fix it. People do not like to change, nobody does because it's easier to keep the same and not do the work necessary to change. When the project it decided, when you know what you're going to go after, then you have to put together a team to look closer at the difficulty. Sometimes the problem identified is merely a symptom of another bigger, more embedded issue. It is the teams job to recognize the cause of the problem and then begin devising a plan to fix it.
In whatever processes that you happen to be trying to streamline, it is typically a safe bet that it can be broken down even further into smaller steps, into smaller processes. Sometimes it's the only way to move forward because the job is just too big to overhaul in one fail swoop. Again, it's for the team to decide what is worth going after first.
You want to identify what will make the largest initial impact and what will help the most people. Thats right; you need to consider how it is going to affect everybody up and down the process stream. If changing something to help shipping out can save the company money and time, however puts a strain on receiving and makes their jobs much more troublesome, then you have to ask if it's necessary to make the change.
That is why putting your team together is such an important part of the overall process. If the team is only comprised of members of the shipping department, then they really do not care how it will affect the receiving department and by the time somebody notices that it does, it might be too late and the changes already had been implemented.
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