April 2006
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Leadership Development at Lakewood City Schools
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Jim Gray
Congratulations Ohio Award for Excellence Recipients!
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Don Plante
Lean Orientation and Simulation Workshop - On Thursday, May 22 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM (continental breakfast and lunch provided), at the Travelers Choice Hotel at I-71 and Rt 18 in Medina, WINOC is conducting a Lean Orientation and Simulation Workshop with our partner Process Excellence Systems Inc. This is offered as part of WINOC's Northeast Ohio Manufacturing Education series. The morning session covers the benefits of Lean practices and the afternoon session provides participants with a hands-on lesson in the power of Lean.
Go here for more details, cost and registration information.
Lean Benchmarking Tour - The Solon & Twinsburg Manufacturing Forum will be in Twinsburg at GED Integrated Solutions on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 from 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM. Come learn from an organization that has embarked on its Lean journey ten years ago!
Go here for more details, directions and registration information.
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WINOC, with its cosponsors, continues to expand its series of manufacturing forums in northeast Ohio.
In January, Sealy Mattress Company hosted a Medina County manufacturing forum and benchmarking tour. In February, Demag Plastics in Strongsville hosted a manufacturing forum and benchmarking tour.
The next manufacturing forum and benchmarking tour will be in Twinsburg at GED Integrated Solutions on April 25, 2006. This forum event is cosponsored by the University of Akron and the Greater Akron Chamber. For more information click here.
Information and downloads from these forums are available online to participants and WINOC members.
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About the Author of "Manufacturing will Survive"
Jim Gray is Principal of JPG Advisors, LLC and a Senior Business Advisor for WINOC in areas of Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Operational Leadership and Lean Implementation (Shop and Office). Jim has a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree from Cleveland State University and an MBA in Operations/Strategic Management from Case Western Reserve University.
[See Jim's bio here.]
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Leadership Development at Lakewood City Schools
WINOC, Ashland University Telego Center for Educational Improvement and the Center for Leadership in Education (CLE) have partnered in winning a significant leadership development program at Lakewood City Schools. You can view the district's press release here.
The unique aim of the program, currently in its pilot phase, is to provide leadership development services and programming to the entire administrative team of the district. This requires customization of otherwise standard and standards-based approaches in order to respond to the diversity of the administrative team.
WINOC's role is program management and program evaluation. The Telego Center serves as the fiscal agent and provider of credit and non-credit, off-site and on-site, off-line and on-line educational courses. CLE provides assessment services and customized programming.
For more information go to www.LCS.winoc.org.
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Manufacturing will survive... through planning, innovation, sourcing and lean execution.
Manufacturing has been getting hit pretty hard of late. We keep hearing of losing manufacturing to third world countries. While this may be true particularly for commodity or high volume items, this makes for opportunities. For manufacturers, they need to innovate and be lean. Also, small and midsize organizations need to cooperate with others in their community. Outsourcing does not mean going overseas, but utilizing the best resources to better service your customers.
The model for success in manufacturing consists of planning, innovation, sourcing and lean execution. Planning is an understanding of your market and capabilities, and developing a roadmap for success. One key "Quality" is now a given and the organization needs to plan for quality. Plans need to be throughout the organization from strategic to tactical. All plans need to be communicated and understood to be effectively implemented.
Innovation is developing new products, services and processes. No organization can stand on its' past merits. Nor does every shop need to develop their own products, if one can continuously improve its' processes to deliver high quality cost effective work for their customers, they can survive.
Organizations need to look outside their own facilities and even their industry to find others with the best practices to use as resources. This requires cooperation with customers and suppliers. New agreements and ways of doing business are necessary.
Lean execution is a key to success. One needs not only to plan for the best, but needs to execute for the best. All organizations, small and large, need to embrace lean techniques. Even companies that count on product development need to incorporate lean into the development process. Manufacturing can and will survive to be an important part of the northeastern Ohio economy. Will your company be part of it?
[Published with permission of the author.]
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WINOC Clients Win Ohio Awards for Excellence
The Ohio Partnership for Excellence (OPE) recently announced the 2006 Ohio Award for Excellence winners. Again this year the winners include a number of ODOT (Ohio Department of Transportation) Districts... Akron District 4, Bowling Green District 2, Jacksontown District 5, and ODOT itself in Columbus. In 2000/2001 WINOC was contracted with by ODOT to conduct Baldrige assessments at ODOT Districts throughout the state and at Divisions of ODOT in Columbus. We are proud of our contributions to ODOT's Baldrige journey.
In Education, WINOC client Lake Local School District in Hartville and Uniontown won a Committed to Excellence Award (Tier 2).
In Healthcare, WINOC client Pomerene Hospital in Millersburg also won a Committed to Excellence Award (Tier 2).
WINOC's Baldrige- related work with clients continues past the Award to helping clients develop plans to address their feedback reports (see OFI's to Action article below).
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Whether your list of Opportunities for Improvement (OFI's) comes from a Baldrige Award/Assessment Feedback Report or from other sources, they can present a daunting 'to do' list for your organization. How can you best deal with the list?
In WINOC's approach we evaluate OFI's based on three criteria... impact, pervasiveness and order.
Impact - Will the improvement have an incremental impact, a step-change impact or a strategic impact? By incremental we mean in the Kaizen sense of small, continuous improvements. Step-change improvement is the kind of dramatic improvement you get when you improve a process... you get the benefit of even a small improvement every time you go through the process. Strategic is the kind of long-term improvement that changes an organization forever... you look back and even see a different culture back then.
Pervasiveness - Does the improvement affect or involve most or even all key stakeholders or just one or two stakeholder groups? We find this criteria to be especially important in Government and Education where organizations deal with a long list of key stakeholders. For example, for business we might be talking about owners, customers and employees but for education we are talking about students, staff, Board, parents, unions, voters, property owners plus local, state and federal governments/agencies.
Order - Some improvements should logically precede others... we need an 'order of battle'. After all, the Baldrige improvement model is that systematic approaches, fully deployed, beget results. So maybe improvements that address approaches such precede those that address deployment, should precede those that call for outcomes.
WINOC has a one-day workshop that will guide your leadership team through the process of applying these three criteria in order to translate OFIs into Action Plans... it is described here... or contact us at AdvServ@winoc.org.
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