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When it comes to simplifying problems in your company, what is the most valuable and efficient way to do it? Well, if you are heading up the operation, the owner, all you have to do is say what youexpect. Your choice is unquestioned and everyone 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 answer the problem or just delay the inevitable? Is only receiving the ideas or participation from a single person the very best way to go about solving a predicament or is it better to get a opinion and ideas from various individuals? Of course, a problem can better be resolved and identified with different people working on it. When varying ideas and different perspectives are viewed through, the simpler it is to discover new ideas. The collective knowledge and worldview and understanding of lots of different colleagues is much wider and much more varied than if it is limited to just a single person. That individual may have plenty of experience and be extremely knowledgeable, but when you have access to many brains and multiple ideas, you are almost always more likely to get a favorable outcome.

This group of people, this team that you are going to assemble will need some aid getting started. Who is best to put on your team? It is always going to be a little different and for each problem you may want to have another group leader. You want your leader to be somebody that all members can get behind and that everyone respects. You also require them to be knowledgeable about what they are working with and if they are valued and liked by the rest of the group, then more than likely they are all of the above. This team is going to be responsible for a big task and they will be looked at to solve the problem and do it as resourcefully and cost effective as possible. You will want an individual on the team that has skill working with these types of groups and has experience with teams and lean practices in general. You will also require team members that are mixed in their job duties and are up and down the management ladder. You do not want a group that is strictly 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 need. The more viewpoints that you entertain, the more possibilities you will get an proposal or point of view that you weren’t expecting and that might be new to everybody on the team. The ideas that come from a team can often be a combination of ideas that come from the entire group. Often, the final product is a mix of all of the brainstorming that has come before it, but fleshes out the thoughts more completely.