Banking
When it comes to simplifying problems in your organization, what is the most valuable and resourceful way to do it? Well, if you are incharge, the owner, all you have to do is say what youexpect. Your decision is final and everybody has to do what you say. But are you sure that the choice you made is the best possible answer to your problem? Is the response that you came up with what will answer the situation or just postpone the inevitable? Is only asking the ideas or contribution from one employee the very best way to go about solving a problem or is it better to get a view and ideas from various people? Of course, a problem can better be resolved and identified with many participants working on it. When various viewpoints and varying perspectives are viewed through, the simpler it is to discover new ideas. The collective familiarity and worldview and understanding of lots of different employees is much broader and much more mixed than if it is narrowed to just a single individual. That person may have a lot of experience and be very well informed, but when you add access to multiple thoughts and lots of ideas, you are almost always more likely to get a better outcome.
This grouping of people, this team that you are going to put together will need some aid getting started. Who is best to put on your team? It is always going to be slightly different and for each problem you may want to have another group leader. You want your leader to be someone that everybody can get behind and that everyone respects. You also want them to be knowledgeable about what they are looking at and if they are valued and liked by the rest of the members, then more than likely they are all of the above. This group is going to be accountable for a large undertaking and they will be looked at to solve the situation and do it as resourcefully and cost effective as possible. You will want people on the team that has practice working with these types of groups and has familiarity with groups and lean manufacturing in general. You will also need team members that are diverse in their job positions and are up and down the management ladder. You do not want a team that is only comprised of upper management or only workers on the factory floor. If you do this, then you will not get the views and the varying perspectives that you want. The more viewpoints that you consider, the more possibilities you will get an idea or perception that you weren’t expecting and that might be new to everybody on the team. The ideas that come from a group can often be a combination of views that come from the whole group. Often, the final product is a mix of all of the thoughts that has come before it, but fleshes out the thoughts more fully.