Logistics
When it comes to solving problems in your organization, what is the most valuable and efficient way to do it? Well, if you are the boss, the owner, all you have to do is say what youexpect. Your decision is final and everyone has to do what you say. But are you sure that the decision you made is the best possible answer to your situation? Is the response that you came up with what will solve the problem or just delay the unavoidable? Is only getting the opinion or participation from one colleague the very best way to go about solving a problem or is it better to get a judgment and ideas from many individuals? Of course, a problem can better be resolved and identified with different people working on it. When different viewpoints and different perspectives are looked through, the better it is to discover new ideas. The shared comprehension and worldview and experience of many different employees is much wider and much more varied than if it is restricted to just one individual. That person may have a great deal of skill and be very educated, but when you add access to many heads and multiple ideas, you are almost always more likely to get a favorable result.
This grouping of individuals, this team that you are going to assemble will need some assistance 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 team leader. You want your leader to be an individual that all members 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 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 practice working with these types of groups and has knowledge with teams and lean practices in general. You will also want group members that are mixed in their job responsibilities and are up and down the management ladder. You do not want a team that is only comprised of upper management or only employees on the floor. If you do this, then you will not get the thoughts and the varied perspectives that you need. The more viewpoints that you consider, the more possibilities you will get an suggestion or perspective 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 views that come from the whole group. Often, the final product is a mix of all of the ideas that has come before it, but fleshes out the thoughts more fully.