From the course: Operational Excellence Work-Out and Kaizen Facilitator

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Solutions Work-Out

Solutions Work-Out

From the course: Operational Excellence Work-Out and Kaizen Facilitator

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Solutions Work-Out

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- Here's the challenge: management wants to tap the in-house experience and expertise of as many people as possible, to come up with solutions. Here's the assignment: conduct a work-out to generate, evaluate, and recommend solutions. This is often called a solutions work-out. How do you do this? When you are planning three weeks before the event, do some preliminary work to understand what the solution is for. The solution might be needed to address non-root causes of a problem. Or, it might be needed to generate new ideas to increase operation performance. Regardless, you need to identify the key metric to be improved. You the champion to finalize the work-out charter for this event. To help you develop an agenda, go to the spreadsheet provided in Exercise Files. The room set-up is nearly identical to other work-outs. Bring marker pens, plenty of Post-it notes, and flip chart paper. Choose a space that has open wall space, and desks for writing. Arrange the seating to encourage…

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