Finance
When it comes to simplifying problems in your company, what is the most valuable and efficient way to do it? Well, if you are incharge, the owner, all you have to do is say what youdesire. Your choice is unquestioned and everybody has to do what you say. But are you sure that the choice you made is the best possible answer to your situation? Is the answerconclusion that you came up with what will solve the situation or just delay the unavoidable? Is only receiving the view or contribution from one person the very best way to go about solving a dilemma or is it better to get a opinion and ideas from various people? Of course, a problem can better be resolved and identified with diverse participants working on it. When varying viewpoints and varying perspectives are viewed through, the better it is to discover new ideas. The collective knowledge and worldview and skill of many different workers is much broader and much more varied than if it is narrowed to just a single individual. That individual may have a lot of experience and be very well informed, but when you have access to multiple heads and multiple ideas, you are nearly always more likely to get a better result.
This group of individuals, this group that you are going 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 team leader. You want your leader to be somebody that everybody can rally behind and that everyone respects. You also want them to be experienced about what they are looking at and if they are valued and liked by the rest of the team, then more than likely they are all of the above. This team is going to be in charge of for a large undertaking and they will be looked at to solve the situation and do it as efficiently and cost effective as possible. You will want an individual on the team that has skill working with these types of teams and has familiarity with teams and lean practices in general. You will also want group members that are mixed in their job positions and are up and down the chain of command. You do not want a team that is merely comprised of upper management or only workers on the factory floor. If you do this, then you will not get the views and the varied perspectives that you require. The more viewpoints that you entertain, the more opportunities you will get an proposal or point of view 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 entire group. Often, the final product is a combination of all of the thoughts that has come before it, but fleshes out the thoughts more fully.