DailyKaizen

For the last year my focus and the focus of much of our Lean efforts in the organization has been in putting in place an effective Strategy Deployment system.  This included completely changing the way we develop and deploy goals and strategies as well as putting in the foundational processes and systems to support checking and adjusting.  It has been a very successful year thus far and we have a very engage leadership team and the foundations of a management system that we can continue to build out over the years to come. 

From a personal perspective I have learned a lot this year, but over the last couple of months I have grown inpatient.  For people that know me I am a person that thrives on the tension that is created by learning new things by doing them, especially when there is a lot of pressure to get things done quickly.  I get bored quickly with doing things I have done before and as a result often go out and find ways to get myself into new types of work that will require big organizational change and the associated learnings that will come with this change.  One of the Sensei I work with called it last week “creating opportunistic trouble.”   

So back to my inpatience.  As the Strategic Deployment system has become more stable, which is a good thing, I have grown a little frustrated with the process.  Not to say that there are not plenty of opportunities to improve the process.  Its just no longer has the edginess it once had when we were first putting it in place.  So the good news is that there are plenty of opportuntities to take on new, and challenging work.  Over the next year we will be focusing on putting in place the cross-functional and daily management systems across the organization.  We have early experience in both systems, but they are not widely integrated into our management system.  Figuring out how to put these systems in place will cause all kinds of “organizational trouble” and it seems like the natural place for me to focus.  This work will allow me to spend more time in the gemba, to learn new skills/thinking and to hopefully bring new and more interesting content to this blog.  So stay tuned…

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