Fixing the Processes
Every process in every business, e.g., invoicing, recruiting, management reporting, sales and marketing, and information technology, as well as every manufacturing process, has opportunities for increasing productivity and reducing costs.
Process efficiencies are achieved by reducing cycle time…the time it takes to do things…and reducing rework. Reducing cycle time automatically reduces inventories and overall costs. Reducing cycle times also requires cooperation across all “silos” of a company. The rewards are significant.
The Dramatic Cycle Time Reduction workshops are focus intense and time efficient. TCAG has a uniquely earned reputation of helping people objectively identify and understand their entire organization's existing problems…and progress to rational, sustainable solutions and improvements. Solutions are converted to explicit action items, and prioritized for implementation through effective project management. Key performance measures for each of the major process steps ensure long term benefits. The outcome can be expected to reduce cycle time and inventory by at least 50% in manufacturing processes and up to 95% in transactional processes.
Companies have a choice…reorganize and then clarify processes or, as TCAG believes, refine the processes and let the new processes determine if any organizational changes are necessary to support the new processes. The common reorganization sequence of predetermining roles and responsibilities based on availability, personalities, and politics, and then forcing the process into this structure sub-optimizes the process, limiting the quantity and sustainability of gains. The TCAG process has been proven to provide superior results.
