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Star: Managers Graduate with Green Belts
The Star Of The Issue tributes successful individuals or organizations that have triumphed over obstacles in the business world. This issue brings to your attention, the success of an organization called MDeC in its attempt to CHANGE the mindset of Malaysian companies interviews.
SPARK!: Awakening Courageous Leadership by Sandra Ford Walston
You don’t have to be at spiritual odds to awaken your workforce to courageous leadership. Extracting the gifts of courage during training sessions gives the organization its life force. Deceptively simple, the overwhelming challenge lies in the training teams’ level of clarity about how courage actions apply in daily routine. One size of courage does not fit all.
LUNCHBOX: Please Trust Me by Roshan Thiran
Trust relationships are vital to the success of business. Trust is under-rated in most businesses and taken for granted by many. We follow leaders because we trust them and believe they will take us to greater heights.
LUNCHBOX: High Performance Team = Meeting Members' Motivation Objectives by Sherman Yap
Team Performance = Summation of (individual team member’s personal motivation/objectives multiplied by achievement rate of meeting that individual’s motivation)
LUNCHBOX: Challenge of being Value Driven by Shekar Rengarajan
The year was 1983. The technocrat CEO was an avid motorcyclist. He surveyed the market that was dominated by just two Indian manufacturers who offered motorcycles as a mere means of transportation, not as a medium of ‘motorcycling excitement’.
LUNCHBOX: Bitter Taste of Courage Best by A. Aruleswaran
It is the norm or belief that working in a Malaysian institution or organization is almost like working for the government in the sense that jobs are secured throughout the tenure of one’s employment
LUNCHBOX: Integrity at Work by Sulynn Choong
Integrity of Character comes from being authentic and congruent – inside-out the same. It is more than having good morals or beliefs and principles about what’s right and wrong. It’s about doing the right thing – a matter of conscience.
LUNCHBOX: Communication in a Lean Enterprise by Sensei
Sensei teaches you ‘How to communication the Lean way’
BEST PRACTICE: The A3 Report: Showing Respect the Toyota Way by Stephane Thiltgen
Initially, Toyota’s idea was that every issue an organization faces should be captured on a single sheet of paper. So the name comes from the fact that it is supposed to fit on an A3 sized sheet of paper. But it is of course much more than that.
LUNCHBOX: Bitter Taste of Courage Best by A. Aruleswaran
It is the norm or belief that working in a Malaysian institution or organization is almost like working for the government in the sense that jobs are secured throughout the tenure of one’s employment.
LUNCHBOX: Integrity at Work by Sulynn Choong
Integrity of Character comes from being authentic and congruent – inside-out the same. It is more than having good morals or beliefs and principles about what’s right and wrong. It’s about doing the right thing – a matter of conscience.
Read full articleLUNCHBOX: Communication in a Lean Enterprise by Sensei
Sensei teaches you ‘How to communication the Lean way’
BEST PRACTICE: The A3 Report: Showing Respect the Toyota Way by Stephane Thiltgen
Initially, Toyota’s idea was that every issue an organization faces should be captured on a single sheet of paper. So the name comes from the fact that it is supposed to fit on an A3 sized sheet of paper. But it is of course much more than that.
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Six Sigma in Project Management |
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by Satnam Singh on 4 Oct 2009 |
Competition is increasing rapidly and it is not good enough to complete the projects within time and budget, but the aim is to understand the Voice of Customers (VOC). In the last few decades, the project management concept and its techniques have established proven practices and demonstrated their worth within several organisations. But the continuing dramatic failures in projects have highlighted the disadvantages in traditional methods of project management and in particular, the ways in which projects are formulated and executed through them, leaves many opportunities for further development in the project management process.
Beating Recession Wiith a Black Belt
by Satnam Singh
In the current economic downturn, many companies are looking for ways to cut operational costs in order to stay competitive. One of the methodologies available is Six Sigma and it can be applied in any organisation whether in a manufacturing or service industry.
Facilitating Change in a Challenging Economic Climate
by Arulnageswaran
2009 began with a global challenge. This is a result of the collapse of the financial systems in North America and Europe. What we had observed from the financial systems had a direct impact to various industries, in particular, the manufacturing sector.
Today, a global automotive giant, General Motors, is in the process of filing for Chapter 11 status in the United States. This is an example of the failure in the financial system affecting an industry that employs thousands.Governments in North America and Europe have been working hard to introduce stimulus packages to curb this extent of financial impact.
What is 5S?
by Sabee Chai Sek Shiang
The 5S's is always simple yet very essential for successful companies today to drive to the way for high quality, improving productivity and and increasing efficiency. It is the most basic foundamental for everyone to work in a comfortable, healthy and productive life. It is also a set of techniques providing a structured approach to adopt housekeeping within Lean.
The elements of 5S are the acronym of 5 Japanese words that are Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu and Shitsuke.
Seiri is the identification of the Sort, Systematisation or Simplify.
Seiton is the orderliness and a series of steps by which the optimum organisation identified in the first pillar are put into place.
Seiso is the cleanliness.
Seiketsu is the standardisation of cleanup.
Shitsuke is the last: Sustain or Self-discipline.
The Minute Cell
by A. Aruleswaran & T. Kananatu
The word “minute” can be used in two different ways. In the context of time, a minute is 60 seconds or the time it takes to read this posting. In the context of size, minute is something that is very small, which can also be (mis)conceived as something that is insignificant.
An employee of any business organization is the cell of the structure that makes up the company. Each cell must work well for the whole to operate. If one cell is defective or degenerating, most employers would replace the cell rather than “cure” it or put it right. In due course, changing cells becomes a practice. When turnover rates are high, this often means that the organization has failed to realize that there is something much more sinister than failing cells. They fail to see the real problem which is, pardon my expression, more than skin deep.
