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Business Excellence Journey
Business Excellence Journey
Once top
management decides to take this journey, the immediate question arises is what is the approach?
Where and how to start?
Selection of right approach at the beginning is critical for the successful journey. Each
organization is unique and challengers are unique. One solution does not fit other organizations
and also same organization at different time periods. During the midway of the journey if
organization realizes that the approach they are taking is wrong, they already lost lot of precious
time! Also, it will confuse employees if organization changing the approach often.
A study says less than 2 % companies sustain the Business excellence journey beyond 5 years.
This is because of selecting wrong strategy or using Flavor of the month approach. If key
professionals and decision makers aware of various strategies and their suitability, the journey
becomes very successful. In this paper we are making an attempt to provide a frame work for
selection of suitable approach.
Conclusion:
The reason why less than 1 % of organizations sustained business excellence journey beyond 5
years is that they did not change the strategies often but adapted best practices and tools as and
when required without changing the main umbrella. The organizations using TQM strategy does
not mean that they are not using Six Sigma for problem solving. Similarly, the organizations
using Six Sigma as their strategic umbrella may use Quick Changeover or SMED concept to
reduce time taken for changeovers.