Comments on: Why Training Doesn’t Work http://www.resourcesystemsconsulting.com/blog/archives/30 Thoughts on Supply Chain with a Lean and Six Sigma twist. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:39:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bruce Mortimer http://www.resourcesystemsconsulting.com/blog/archives/30#comment-5 Bruce Mortimer Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:14:20 +0000 http://www.resourcesystemsconsulting.com/blog/?p=30#comment-5 This article makes sense. Only the element of time is missing from the list of employee's needs. Anyone who has changed a golf stroke, or learned a new style of skiing, or changed a key member of their sailing crew, knows - a loss of performance inevitably follows, but is replaced by better performance in the long run. How often does lack of patience for the initial loss of performance, or lack of priority to allow practice, result in the failure of change. I believe businesses committed to change need to plan for, and except the inevitable time and cost to practice. This article makes sense. Only the element of time is missing from the list of employee’s needs. Anyone who has changed a golf stroke, or learned a new style of skiing, or changed a key member of their sailing crew, knows – a loss of performance inevitably follows, but is replaced by better performance in the long run. How often does lack of patience for the initial loss of performance, or lack of priority to allow practice, result in the failure of change.

I believe businesses committed to change need to plan for, and except the inevitable time and cost to practice.

]]> By: Jaco Koen http://www.resourcesystemsconsulting.com/blog/archives/30#comment-2 Jaco Koen Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:25:17 +0000 http://www.resourcesystemsconsulting.com/blog/?p=30#comment-2 This is a very good article and especially now as I am busy structuring a 'best deployment plan' in my organisations procurement devision. The plan is to deploy Lean Six Sigma with the supply base to generate benefits for the organisation from a VALUE perspective and not from the old 'beat them up for a better price' ways procurement is used to operate. The current debate is about a structured classroom training across the supply base leading to bespoke programs within each supplier and giving some support to this program for a while. I am going to have this debate soon, and would like to take this article as leverage to get my point across about structured training followed by intense mentoring, and I suppose the old saying that "5 halves does not make a whole". Good to get the info now, and thanx for putting together such an interesting site for the Lean Six Sigma practitioners. I will be back for more!! This is a very good article and especially now as I am busy structuring a ‘best deployment plan’ in my organisations procurement devision. The plan is to deploy Lean Six Sigma with the supply base to generate benefits for the organisation from a VALUE perspective and not from the old ‘beat them up for a better price’ ways procurement is used to operate. The current debate is about a structured classroom training across the supply base leading to bespoke programs within each supplier and giving some support to this program for a while.

I am going to have this debate soon, and would like to take this article as leverage to get my point across about structured training followed by intense mentoring, and I suppose the old saying that “5 halves does not make a whole”.

Good to get the info now, and thanx for putting together such an interesting site for the Lean Six Sigma practitioners. I will be back for more!!

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