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When it comes to simplifying problems in your organization, what is the most effective and efficient way to do it? Well, if you are heading up the operation, the owner, all you have to do is convey what youdesire. Your choice is final and everyone 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 problem or just delay the inevitable? Is only receiving the view or participation from one person the very best way to go about solving a problem or is it better to get a judgment and ideas from multiple people? Of course, a problem can better be resolved and identified with different people working on it. When various viewpoints and different perspectives are viewed through, the simpler it is to discover new ideas. The collective familiarity and worldview and skill of lots of different workers is much broader and much more mixed than if it is limited to just one person. That person may have plenty of practice and be very educated, but when you gain access to many heads and many ideas, you are nearly always more likely to get a favorable result.
This collection of people, this panel that you choose to put together 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 situation you may want to have another group leader. You want your leader to be an individual that all members can rally behind and that everybody respects. You also need them to be experienced about what they are working with 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 big task and they will be looked at to solve the situation and do it as capably 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 manufacturing in general. You will also require group members that are diverse in their job duties and are up and down the management ladder. 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 varying perspectives that you want. The more viewpoints that you entertain, the more possibilities you will get an suggestion 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 mixture of ideas that come from the entire group. Often, the final product is a combination of all of the brainstorming that has come before it, but fleshes out the thoughts more completely.