Organizing for Productivity

Leonard Meador

6755 / Indiana Employee Seminar 2017 / For Employees

“Value” is what customers pay for. A key insight for operational success is learning to see which business activities add value and which ones don’t. The goal of organizing is to make the value-adding activities easier, and reduce activity that doesn’t add value. We look at several basic techniques for organizing: work-area layout, 5S, and visual controls.