Good afternoon operational improvement afficionados!
This week our managing director Eric Hiller published another piece about operational improvement and how to bring principles from Lean, Six Sigma, and VAVE into the discussion, specifically when engaging executives in an operational transformation.
Please see more here!
Eric Hiller is moonlighting on us again! This time he’s back on one of his favorite subjects, or at least two of them:
Although there are 1001 ways to fail at the tactical level of the project in either of these methodologies, it turns out that a lot of times these efforts fail because of executive failures in the project. Eric covers the 10 most common ways that you can sink a DtV or PCM project… and more importantly, how to avoid them!
Check out the article here:
Eric A. Hiller Reviews Top Mistakes Made by Executive Champions in Product Cost Management and DtV
So, you had a supply chain, and you thought it was pretty “optimized.”
Yeah, you could improve it here and there, but you had wrung out 95%+ of the addressable waste.
To really make progress, you would need to make MAJOR changes (new suppliers, locations, etc.), but there just is always other stuff to do.
Then Corona happens!!!!
Your tidy and luxurious platform is now burning.
Now you have no choice but to DO SOMETHING different.
Cost was really important and you thought delivery and quality were assured.
Now delivery is a huge problem (maybe quality too.)
What do you do short term? What do you set up in the future to stop this from happening again?
Find out in Eric Hiller’s new article over at the aPriori blog (which Eric originally started in 2007, when it was “CostCents“) It has been a long time since Eric worked at aPriori or wrote for the blog, but he has some advice now.
So… the bad news is that you (and/or your colleagues) missed Eric Hiller’s webinar class on Design-to-Value, sponsored by GLG.
But, the good news is, it was video captured and is available on-demand and for FREE, any time you want to watch it! (Just fill out the registration form at the bottom and the video will start.)
And, let’s be honest, you’ve probably exhausted all the “A” content on your streaming services. Why not spend 1-hour learning about the impact that DtV has on companies from one of the world’s top practitioners. And, Eric will touch on should-cost / how to create cost models to support the DtV effort, to.
(Plus, this actually *IS* real work and research to help your company.)
CLICK HERE to learn about Design-to-Value!
