The Rapid Impact™ Process (Overview)

Conduct a Visioning Session with Top Management to:
Introduce lean concepts and techniques
Set top-level corporate goals e.g., reduce inventory by 70% & achieve 100% on-time delivery.
Identify one or more internal facilitators
Set weekly meeting times to review the goal curves vs. actuals
Objective: Ensure a united management team with clear goals and direction.

Push the Goals Down Through the Organization:
Set Division / Department sub-goals that add to, or exceed corporate goals
Clearly identify responsibilities, measurements, etc.
Objective: Encourage ownership of goals and establish metrics.

Provide Enough Overview Education to Get Started:
Conduct four-hour Middle Management classes (overview of the concepts, and techniques.)
"Paper House" manufacturing demonstration is performed
Share the corporate goals and critical need to achieve them
Hold 45-minute awareness sessions with all employees to explain basic Lean concepts and corporate goals.
Answer the question: "What does this mean to me?"
Objective: Educate and motivate all employees to buy into and support management's Lean vision.

Hold Targeted blitzes:
Identify issues raised by the inventory reductions
Teach the applicable lean techniques
Conduct intensive targeted blitzes to overcome the issues
Implement kanban controls where applicable
Identify "customer / supplier" unit teams
Set unit goals
Leave an ongoing team in place
Note: Blitz teams periodically present their results to the appropriate level TMAC
Objective: Take immediate corrective actions to resolve issues and generate Quantum improvements NOW.

Review Actual Progress Vs. Goal Curves:
Done religiously at the TMAC weekly meeting
Require cause and corrective actions from any group that is below their goal curve.
Objective: Maintain ongoing operational level accountability for goal attainment.

"Re-Visioning" Session: (held after about four to six months of progress)
New issues will have been discovered
Requests for funding will arise
Goals will be reviewed and adjusted / re-apportioned if necessary
Additional techniques and "implications" will be discussed
Lean philosophy and techniques are re-visited
Customer / Supplier visits are planned.
Objective: Assess progress on stated goals, establish new goals, and adjust implementation approach as needed.

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