Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC)

When it comes to figuring out problems in your business, what is the most valuable and resourceful way to do it? Well, if you are the boss, the owner, all you have to do is convey what youexpect. Your verdict is unquestioned and everybody has to do what you want. 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 solve the question or just delay the unavoidable? Is only asking the opinion or participation from a single colleague the very best way to go about solving a dilemma or is it better to get a opinion and thoughts from many individuals? Of course, a problem can better be torn apart and recognized with diverse participants working on it. When varying ideas and different perspectives are viewed through, the simpler it is to discover new ideas. The collective familiarity and worldview and experience of numerous different employees is much broader and much more mixed than if it is narrowed to just a single person. That person may have a great deal of skill and be extremely well informed, but when you have access to multiple heads and many ideas, you are nearly always more likely to get a favorable outcome.

This grouping of people, this team that you choose to put together will need some help getting started. Who is best to put on your team? It is always going to be slightly different and for each situation you may want to have a different group leader. You want your leader to be someone that everybody can get behind and that everybody respects. You also want them to be competent about what they are looking at and if they are valued and liked by the rest of the group, 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 resolve the problem and do it as resourcefully and cost effective as possible. You will want somebody on the team that has experience working with these types of groups and has familiarity with teams and lean practices in general. You will also need team members that are diverse in their job responsibilities and are up and down the chain of command. You do not want a group that is only comprised of upper management or only workers on the factory floor. If you do this, then you will not get the thoughts and the different perspectives that you need. The more viewpoints that you consider, the more possibilities you will get an proposal or perspective that you weren’t expecting and that might be innovative to everybody on the team. The ideas that come from a team can often be a mixture of ideas that come from the whole group. Often, the final product is a mix of all of the brainstorming that has come before it, but fleshes out the idea more completely.