Lean Operations
Navigating Without a Map
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Operations are under incredible stress. We see it in all our clients as new work teams are created to address complex challenges throughout the organization. Collaborations have been strained with some associates working from home while others are needed onsite to continue the flow of information and materials.
As we confront this virus and the economic impact from the shutdown, it has become apparent to us that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. When the economy reopens, our industries will need to be ready to respond. Your business health and the continued operation of your organization is vital. Our supply chain, manufacturing, administrative and leadership coaches are making use of remote tools and communication methods. We stand ready to support the challenges placed on your people and systems. |
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Covid 19 Implications for your Work Stations
With each day our Pandemic altered world changes forever. New guidelines, new rules, new lifestyles. The term “Social Distancing” has and will continue to change how we live, how we play and how we work. Generally, "Social distancing" means not interacting with anyone outside your household, and limiting trips to places where you might interact with other people. It is strongly recommended that you only leave your home for essential travel. Read the Complete Article
Covid 19 Implications for your Employees
With the onset of the COVID-19 virus, our lives have been changed substantially in a short period of time. Nowhere is this more evident than in our working environment. Dealing with displacement of daily security brings new challenges that need additional support to maintain and sustain culture familiarity within an organization.
Determining the hot buttons that employers and employees are faced with in our new normal requires not only awareness of cultural implications, but daily considerations of your decisions will make to address the critical cultural issues. Your culture will no doubt change due the COVID-19 event. Understanding the impact of your decisions that drive your company culture will provide the necessary balance required to address issues and maintain internal business continuity going forward. Read the Complete Article
Determining the hot buttons that employers and employees are faced with in our new normal requires not only awareness of cultural implications, but daily considerations of your decisions will make to address the critical cultural issues. Your culture will no doubt change due the COVID-19 event. Understanding the impact of your decisions that drive your company culture will provide the necessary balance required to address issues and maintain internal business continuity going forward. Read the Complete Article
Covid 19 Implications for your Supply Chain
Covid-19 is here and impacting every aspect of the supply chain. How long will it last? Who of your suppliers will survive? What will the landscape look like when we begin to turn on the economy? Critical items are in short or non-existent supply. Suppliers of non-critical and essential items are shut down. Employees are staying at home or in quarantine. Demand is ramping up and suppliers struggling to keep up. Read the Complete Article
Crisis or opportunity? Depends on how you position your organization during this period. Supply chains will definitely be different when the economy is turned back on. Crisis: Many companies are only working in the short-term view of desperately trying to locate PPE’s and testing kits for when their employees return and production can again begin. Relying on existing agreements with suppliers hoping they will perform as before prior to the crisis. Opportunity: Now is the time to revisit your current supply chain and reset process and performance expectations.
Crisis or opportunity? Depends on how you position your organization during this period. Supply chains will definitely be different when the economy is turned back on. Crisis: Many companies are only working in the short-term view of desperately trying to locate PPE’s and testing kits for when their employees return and production can again begin. Relying on existing agreements with suppliers hoping they will perform as before prior to the crisis. Opportunity: Now is the time to revisit your current supply chain and reset process and performance expectations.
Lean for ManufacturingCompetition, Lean, and the Global Economy
The VIPGroup style focuses on leveraging the client’s skills and knowledge that already resides within their organizations. VIPGroup consultants stimulate extraordinary thinking by the client’s management team and the employees involved in the problems to be solved. Your employees know best what the problems are since they are living with them. VIPGroup taps the client’s existing intellectual resources through cross-functional teams that address the many issues facing the company. VIPGroup then trains the client people in problem-solving methods and tools, and provides guidance and coaching. The end result is a client able to solve most future problems without the need of additional consulting time. Lean Transformations
Many times, critical questions are overlooked: what is the ideal state?, can the ideal state be translated into action plans?, where do you begin and why? VIPGroup focuses on leveraging the client’s skills and knowledge that already resides within their organizations. VIPGroup consultants stimulate extraordinary thinking by the client’s management team and the employees involved in the problems to be solved.
Read More Leading in New Ways
If we can agree that we are in a leadership deficit and that leadership is meant to cause dramatic and useful change in a global operating environment. Good leaders motivate people in a variety of ways, three of which are the basis to our “LEAN” approach. First, leaders must define the organization’s vision in a way that highlights the values of their group; second, leaders must support people’s efforts to achieve the shared vision through coaching.
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