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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822741903321

Autore

Motwani Jaideep

Titolo

Metric dashboards for operations and supply chain excellence / / Jaideep Motwani and Rob Ptacek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-60649-769-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (100 p.)

Collana

Supply and operations management collection, , 2156-8200

Disciplina

658.4038011

Soggetti

Dashboards (Management information systems)

Waste minimization

Lean manufacturing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Part of: 2014 digital library.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-84) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The organizational measurement challenge: what's the score? are we winning? -- 2. Measuring operations and supply chain performance: winners work -- 3. Organizational measurement methods and tools: training day -- 4. Developing organizational measures: the plan -- 5. Key enablers: policy deployment, accountability sessions, employee training and involvement, and improvement tool selection and application -- 6. Using scorecards and dashboards: working the plan -- 7. Case review: metrics in action! -- 8. Making cultural transitions -- 9. Achieving, sustaining, and celebrating success -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last decade Lean and Six Sigma methods and tools have helped organizations improve to historic productivity levels with the data driven, systematic elimination of waste, and improvement of flow. Today many organizations have enjoyed the benefits of Lean and Six Sigma initiatives, and are looking more to sustain the gains, and aggressively drive a systematic and ongoing approach to improvement and problem solving. The concept of diminishing returns applies here in the early stages when organizations were able to find "low-hanging fruit" and to quickly make significant improvements. Now the easy work is done, and organizations need a simple yet systematic approach to continuing their continuous improvement efforts. The term



scoreboards and dashboards are quite common, and many organizations have them. However, the author's observations are that there are many problems common to most organization dashboards.