insidious - Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects:
Yup that is Breakpoints.
Yup that is Breakpoints.
Most process improvement techniques focus
on only a small portion of the improvement potential in every process… the tip
of the iceberg if you will.
How big is the opportunity resting out of
our sight, hidden below the waterline of current process improvement practices?
Recent research shows that as much as 70 to
90 percent of the work people do on a daily basis comes directly from Causes of
Work and this work is NOT part of the “job” for which these people were hired!
Instead, this is non-value added work that takes away from people’s ability to
do their job.
Does this sound familiar? Can you identify
places in your work or life where these Causes of Work are distracting you from
what you really want to be doing?
Are you required to fill out this form,
check up on that order, follow-up on those activities, fix the thing that is
broken, find what got lost, or explain why this was done that way?
Do you get tasked with finding the answer,
knowing the rules, going to meetings (because), pushing something through,
chasing down what really happened, explaining why you did this or that? The
list goes on and on but you shouldn’t need to look very far in any part of your
life to find all kinds of examples of non-value add work you are doing every
single day!
The Break Points Toolkit explicitly targets
these “hidden” wasters of time and money. Causes of Work are the “rest of the
iceberg” for process improvement that, when addressed, lead to dramatic process
improvement results regardless of what kind of process is involved or what kind
of organization the process is in.
Can
you envisage reducing the costs of your operations by 20%, 30%, 40% or even more
than 50%?
