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My first blog ever!
Few days ago I had to prepare an executive out-brief. I was hammering away at power point using the whatever data I collected to tell an ugly story with a path of recovery to senior executives. The presentation went extremely well, and finals words from one of them were "great work, and hope you didn't spend too much time on this". I smiled and walked back to my seat. I spent approximately three times more time on creating a presentation, reviewing with my management rather, editing etc rather than executing on the problem itself. I have seen engineers work long hours on creating charts/graphs for tech helps, IT on response times, Operations on deliveries, inventories, labor hours Quality on cost of poor business, ppm, dpm, Finance on ... you name it. As the Japanese saying goes "go to Gemba" meaning go to the real place where these problems or opportunities arise. The question always arises why is the lead-time so high on a product or part, get the people engaged? My question has always been are we utilizing the right talent/skill to focus on the right stuff? The philosophy needs a culture and a paradigm shift in corporate america.
How much time do you spend building presentations, metrics, graphs communicating upwards rather than fixing the problem?
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