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Critical Chain Project Management

Delivering projects successfully, the TOC way

Best practices of BeingManagement3


in global companies

April, 2018 1-Day Seminar in India

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Common Voices from Top-management
Projects begins to delay suddenly, and rush jobs are forced at the end all the time.
The lead time is longer than competitors.
Cost becomes larger than the initial plan.
Communications across the organization is not good.
Pressure under resource shortage is severe.
Worry whether the quality is satisfying with the requirement.
The whole situation and progress is not visible, which prevent
managers from taking quick actions.
Organizational change as “functional base” to “Project base” every several years,
however, it doesn’t seem to be working well.
Cannot afford to do the Mid/long-term technological development because of the full
hands in short-term matters.

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Common Voices from project leaders
Struggling with an ordinal customer’s requirement for the specification change.
Resource contention is in everywhere across projects.
Forced to start the project before the enough preparation is completed.
Overtime working and Holiday working is wide-spreading especially in the Design and
Development division.
Rework occurs frequently.
Forced to correspond to the inquiry and unexpected troubles under the high loaded
situation of project works.
The task priority is recognized differently by members, and everything is said to be as the
highest priority.

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Critical Chain Project Management
Delivering projects successfully, the TOC way

Best practices
Case1. MAZDA(NPD)
Case2. Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding(ETO)
Case3. Alpine information Systems(IT)
Case4. BOSCH Packaging Systems(Multi-project)
Case5. SHARP(NPD)

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Critical Chain Project Management
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Keywords for the successful implementation


1. Maximizing “FLOW”
2. Identifying "When Not to do"
3. Local Optima to Global Optima
4. Focusing mechanism to balance FLOW
5. Getting Management involved

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Critical Chain Project Management
Delivering projects successfully, the TOC way

Case1. MAZDA
“New product development in powertrain”

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About MAZDA
Company name Mazda Motor Corporation
Founded January 30, 1920
Headquarters 3-1 Shinchi, Fuchu-cho, Aki-gun, Hiroshima 730-8670 Japan
Representative Masamichi Kogai, Representative Director; President and CEO
Main business Manufacture and sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles
Stock Authorized: 1,200,000,000
Information shares Issued: 599,875,479
shares Number of shareholders: 151,191
Capital ¥258,957,096,762
Employees Unconsolidated Total: 22,121 (Male: 20,129 Female: 1,992) (including
dispatchees)
Consolidated: 48,849
Research and Head Office, Mazda R&D Center (Yokohama), Mazda North American
development Operations (USA), Mazda Motor Europe (Germany), China Engineering
sites Support Center (China)
Production sites Japan: Hiroshima Plant (Head Office, Ujina), Hofu Plant (Nishinoura,
Nakanoseki), Miyoshi Plant
Overseas: China, Thailand, Mexico, Vietnam*1, Malaysia*2, Russia*2
Sales companies Japan: 229, Overseas: 141

Principal Four-wheeled vehicles, gasoline reciprocating engines, diesel engines,


products automatic and manual transmissions for vehicles

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Powertrain Dept. HQ implemented CCPM
for new product development projects

Mazda3 Mazda6

MX-5 CX-5

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Implementation History

2013-
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2014

Step 3
Big Results
-SKYACTIV Technology Project-

Step 2
Turning Point

Step 1
Starting Point

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Step 1
Starting Point -Bottom-up Activity-
Challenge by three champions
• In October 2007, Started implementing CCPM to Powertrain development headquarters
– Working with Champions who promote CCPM activities
• Powertrain planning Dept. General Manager : Mr. Akihiro Kidani
(Currently : General Manager MDI Project Office, MDI : MAZDA Digital Innovation)
• Chief Manager : Mr. Yoshimichi Tanaka (Currently : Tanaka Coaching Office)
• Assistant Manager : Mr. Mitsuo Mimura Mr. Tanaka

– Top management of Powertrain development headquarters worried about their future


• Top management was General Manager : Mr. Fujiwara.
(Currently : Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer,
Oversight of R&D and MDI, In charge of Cost Innovation)
– CCPM promoting members started investigating the possibilities of CCPM
• In December 2007, held CCPM workshop with mainly key persons by Being Co.,Ltd.
– Over 150 attendees
– Many of them felt a possibility in the direction with CCPM

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Step 1 Starting Point -Bottom-up Activity-
Dilemma of Top management
Top management of Powertrain development HQ agreed to the concept of CCPM

Yes But…
= Good! = Having many bad experiences of
KAIZEN activities in the past…
• In the past, experienced a number of KAIZEN activities by Top-down but most of
them ended with half way or became mere facade.
• Didn’t want to repeat the same mistake they have made in the past!
• Desire to make it successful and make it a part of their culture

Decided to go by Bottom-up activities


by Volunteers, instead of Top-down
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Step 1 Starting Point -Bottom-up Activity-
Pilot project of CCPM
• February in 2008, Being Co., Ltd. started providing consulting services for introducing
CCPM by Bottom-up.
– Implementation of CCPM Software “BeingManagement”
– Weekly, CCPM training programs (For Management, for Project manager, for Task Manager)
• Launched with Single project bases until the Middle management and Gemba got a
Reliability of CCPM
• In limited area, in pilot project, the volunteers had activities.
• Expanding the member of volunteers by continuing seminars several times a month.
– Outstanding performance by promoting members
• Bottom-up implementation=12months - 18months

Continue to Bottom-up Activity

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Step 2
Turning Point -Shortened the Development Duration from 2 years to 1 year-
Applied CCPM to short-term development project
• January in 2009,
• The savior project for CCPM activity appeared,

– Initial plan for the project was 2 years


• Top management requested to make it 1 year.
• Plan:Be conscious of Project Flow.
• Execution : Management understanding progress
by a short cycle.
Speedy actions for recovery by management.

Challenge!

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Step 2 Turning Point -Shortened the Development Duration from 2 years to 1 year-

Results
• Shortened the Development Duration from 2 years to 1 year!
• The project ended in a big success!
• Experienced a successful project which they
had never done before.

Buffer consumption
Success Factors

rate(%)
• Communication across the organization.
• Think together, and Manager’s initiative.

Chain progress rate (%)

Gained a Reliability of CCPM


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Step 3 How they managed Large Projects

Applying CCPM to Large Projects


• The number of tasks became thousands in the projects
• Adopted the idea of “Project Nesting”
• Management in a separate Medium-sized projects and Large-sized project.
• Managed Summary projects and Blanch projects separately
•Summary project: Overall plan, having 100 to 200 tasks
•Blanch projects: Managing sub-projects for each areas

e.g Engine system: Hundreds of tasks


Exhaust system: 100 tasks
Intake system: 100 tasks
Control system: Hundreds of tasks

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Step 3 Big Results -SKYACTIV Technology Project-

From Bottom-up Activity to Top-down Activity

• Pressure from the market


• Pressure from Top management:Release earlier!!

Original ▼Start Goal▼


CX-5 Project

Actual ▼Start Goal▼


CX-5 Project

▼Start Goal▼
Mazda2 Project
▼Start Goal▼ Two additional
Mazda3 Project projects

Big Challenge, Huge Success !!


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Step 3 Big Results -SKYACTIV Technology Project-
Synchronization with many groups and development members
Periodical update meeting for Large project management
• Established a “CCPM Room” for an intensive discussion to solve
the issues.
• Project leaders from all projects
met every week in this room.
• Sharing project progress and
making prompt decisions for the
required actions to meet due-date.
• Escalate the issues to the
management and solve it within
24 hours in the case where the
project needs support from the top-management.

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Step 3 Big Results -SKYACTIV Technology Project-
Synchronization with many groups and development members
Task Management Meeting in every morning
• Break down the CCPM task to individual tasks
• Stand up meeting in front of the Task board.
• Manage by project team leaders

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Step 3 Big Results -SKYACTIV Technology Project-

Synchronization with Suppliers


• Explaining the concept of CCPM to those suppliers who influences
Project Buffer.
• Negotiating due-date by sharing actual CCPM schedule
• Implemented CCPM to some of the suppliers

Synchronization with other departments


• CCPM hasn’t been applied yet
• Explaining the concept of CCPM and sharing CCPM schedule
• Not missing daily communications
• Executing synchronization of Milestones

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Step 3 Big Results -SKYACTIV Technology Project-

Executive Officer’s Presentation in TOCICO Conference 2013

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Step 3 Big Results -SKYACTIV Technology Project-
Big Results
• All the projects were delivered on time or even earlier to the market.
• CX-5 was successfully released to the market earlier than the initial plan.
• SKYACTIV Winning various awards around the World.
• Bottom line profits were turned into black in 2013 after 4 years continuous
loss.
• Increase Development capacity and productivity.

Opening Keynote in 2013


by Mr. Mitsuo Hitomi, Executive officer
And, applied CCPM to SKYACTIV projects and All projects
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Awarded 2016 TOCICO International POOGI Award,
and won a world car of the year in 2016

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Critical Chain Project Management
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Case2. Mitsui Ship Building

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Background of Shipyard Industry

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Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.

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Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.

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Critical Chain Project Management
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Case3. Alpine Information Systems

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Alpine Information Systems

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Alpine Information Systems

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Alpine Information Systems

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Case4. BOSCH Packaging Systems

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Technology

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Bosch Packaging Systems AG, Beringen, SWITZERLAND

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Critical Chain Project Management
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Case5. SHARP
“PM Innovation in Mobile phone development”

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Critical Chain Project Management
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Case in Sharp corporation

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Corporate Profile

Company name Sharp Corporation

1 Takumi-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Osaka 590-8522, Japan


Head Office
+81-72-282-1221
Founder, Tokuji Hayakawa, was awarded a patent for the "Tokubijo" snap buckle (he was 18 years old at
Established the time). On September 15, 1912, he established a small metalworking shop in Matsui-cho, Honjo,
Tokyo

Representative J.W. Tai, President & Chief Executive Officer

5 billion yen /50 million dollars


Capital Stock
(as of March 31, 2017)

Listed market Tokyo Stock Exchange, standard 4834

2,050,639 million yen (consolidated)


Sales 1,577,301 million yen (unconsolidated)
( Fiscal 2016 Financial Results )
Consolidated: 42,861
Japan: 18,439 (Sharp Corporation 13,452 / other Consolidated 4,987)
Employees
Overseas: 24,422 (Consolidated)
(as of June 30, 2017)

Mainly manufacturing and sales of telecommunications equipment, electric and electronic application
Business Domain
equipment, and electronic components.

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IoT Communications
IoT Communications
Mobile phones, tablets, electronic dictionaries, calculators,
facsimiles, telephones, network control units.

Personal Communications

Preceding Design Prod. After


Study Planning Dev. Sell-in Support

Communication Robots

<Annual Report2017>

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Before project
This project had started before a known acquisition by Foxconn Technology in January, 2016

<Annual Report2016>
Negative spiral

Downturn

Weak Lose Resource


Product appeal Motivation Reduction

Stagnation
Of activities
For Future

Since 2012, Sharp had been struggling with the above


negative spiral in spite of various structural reform measures.

As the same in other business divisions, in Personal


Communication business division, most of their employees
were exhausting with high work load and anxiety for future
under resource reduction and a plenty of corporate
restructuring activities.
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What to change, and What to change to
What to change?: What is the problem we are attempting to address?
What to change to? : What is our solution to problems?

Constraint 1
Shortage of spare time for their preceding study of their
following models within one year

Change Management
=CCPM(Critical Chain Project Management)

Constraint 2
Unclear “Cause and effect” logic between Top-
management strategy and GENBA activities.

Visualize the logic between strategy and tactics


=S&T tree format

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What to change to

Why we chose CCPM as a solution?


Focused attention on the waiting/holding time caused by Bad Multi-tasking

Others
Longer task time
Waiting for Inputs

Stop working Delayed Delayed response Tend to


Waiting for approvals
response to

Waiting time
in the middle issues to resources rework
Waiting for resources

Bad Multi-tasking by Bad Multi-tasking


Manager/Resources
(Unavoidable)
Resources are Uncertainty
Start other limited Too many WIP tasks
tasks

Too many projects are


released in parallel Actual
Waiting Productive time
time occurs Task can be
started with not
Mindset of “Early start
enough
brings early Fear of “not meeting
preparation
completion” Due date if we don’t
start ASAP” Composition of Project L/T
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What to change to

3 major elements for reducing Bad Multi-tasking

Pipeline management

Project release control based on virtual drum

Full Kitting
Full Kitting before project/task release in order to avoid
re-works and to accelerate smooth execution.

Buffer management
Project execution with priorities based on buffer consumption,
and building issue escalation/solving system.

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How to cause the change

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How to cause the change

Less communication under silos/vertical organization


Restructuring to cross-functional organization
-Too much attention to their own division’s work, which was preventing quick
respond to cross functional issues.
-Restructured organization to project based formation, and transfer the authority to
each project managers

《Before》 Personal Communication Div. 《After》 Personal Communication Div.


Dev A

Dev A
Dev D

Dev D
Dev C

Dev C
Dev B

Dev B
Project
Project
Project Manager
Task Task Task Task
Manager Manager Manager Manager
Task Task Task Task
Manager Manager Manager Manager

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How to cause the change

Assigned project manager lead to create the entire plan


-Applied CCPM to a new mobile phone development Project.
Following the initial success in hardware dept., software dept. had joined to implement CCPM.
-Under the leadership in project managers and task managers, everyone had cooperated to
create the entire project plan
-Struggled with creating the entire project plan at the beginning, however, the entire project
picture became visible to everyone.

Entire project plan


In Hardware development Dept.

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How to cause the change

Allocating buffer into project plan


-It wasn’t easy to make buffer time in a project plan, because of the required short project due
date and the limited resources.
-However, project leaders encouraged members to challenge it by sharing the entire goal of
the project, which was “Creating preceding study time for next models”.
-In the first project as a trial, they decided to start the project with 50% for task executing time
and other 50% for project buffer. *Purchasing L/T is not included.

Following the trial in Hardware Dept.,


Software Dept. joined this process.

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How to cause the change

Buffer management
Brief morning meeting/Daily has started.
How to create value for attending this daily meeting?
Progress report
- Remaining Duration for each tasks had reported by task managers
- Confirming the project status in fever chart and checking critical chain by using penetrating chain
analysis(BM3) among all the project members.
- Escalating issues to project managers or upper authorities if it is required.
- Project managers lead to avoid bad multi-tasking by clarifying priority(Project level/Task level)

Confirming Fever Chart

RDU report

Issue escalation

Penetrating chain analysis

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How to cause the change

Delay of issue escalation and problem solving was


preventing project progress and its quality
Issue Escalation
-Covering all bases for smooth issue escalation and quick solving
-Avoid taking all issues on individuals, thus solving quickly small issues in a daily morning meeting.
-Accelerating cross functional issue solving with inexperienced speed
in order to shorten the waiting time for each tasks.
*Especially managers commitment for quick issue solving was essential in the beginning. Issue solving

Escalation to upper
authority

Unsolved issues
Solve it
Requires cross
in a morning Mtg.
functional adjustment

Escalation Daily morning Mtg.

Issue occurs

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How to cause the change
Sample image: Issue escalation and solving cycle for more Speed

Daily Daily When necessary

Organizational Issue
Task Manager Mtg. Project issue solving Mtg.

Issue Escalation
Solving Mtg.

Issue Escalation
--------------------- ----------------------
Task Manager Project Manager ----------------------
Assigned resources Task Manager Directors
Project members *Project Manager

RDU Fever Chart


Daily at 8:30AM Multi-project
Delay reasons Penetrating
30 minutes Fever Chart
Issue List Chain Analysis
Issue List
Issue List
Task Solution Solution
Execution Execution Execution

Pipeline management Mtg.


Operational Audit Mtg.
----------------------
Directors
Pipeline Manager
Promotional team member

Every Wednesday at 13:00PM


60 minutes Weekly

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How to cause the change
Too much reworking time and quality issue
in downstream process
Full Kitting
- Before CCPM, unsolved issues were left until the downstream process, as a result, there were
many cases of firefighter working in front of the mass-production process.
-In spite of the uncompleted preparation(Full kitting), tasks were executed. This brought more
waiting time and too much reworks.

Ideal Planning Phase Phase A Phase B Production

Spec. change was Needed to recover


bringing many issues Quality requirement

Fire
Before Planning Phase Phase A Phase B Prod.
Fighting

Many issues were Before mass- Vertical mass-production


Need to start as it was
postponed to be solved production, issues have launch required additional
originally scheduled
to downstream to be solved investment

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How to cause the change

Start after Full-


Full-Kitting(Enough preparation)
- Setting clear criteria for Full-kitting items of each phases and Go/Not go criteria to next
phase, which was shared among all members.
- Preventing reworks in the downstream and realizing assured quality ahead of schedule in
earlier stage, by completing full-kitting in each phases.

Full-kitting
manager

Approval
By Director

Items Responsible
ToDo Doing Done
Dept.
A Dev. A

B Dev. B

C Dev. C

D Dev. D

Visualized in Whiteboard with sticky notes Checking progress ↑

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Delivering projects successfully, the TOC way

Intermediate Results in Sharp

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Intermediate Results in Sharp

Constraint 1
Change Management
Shortage of spare time for their preceding study of
=CCPM(Critical Chain Project Management)
their following models within one year

Build early issue escalation system and accelerate their


speed and capacity to solve project issues.
- Achieved 30% reduction in L/T of their internal mobile phone development within 6 months.
- Acquired spare time from the L/T reduction was allocated to the time for preceding study and
technical research.

Procurement Procurement Production

Acquired Acquired
Internal Task Internal Task Launch Acquired Time
Time Time
Shortened Shortened Shortened

Assigning resources to Assigning resources


preceding study and technical research. to next models
Approximately 1 month Approximately 1 months

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Realized a required quality ahead of initial schedule


- Reduced a vast of additional investment for delay recovery
- Reduced 20% of indicated issues by customer (Software dept.)
*Especially serious findings were dramatically reduced.
- Bug convergence timing was advanced by 25% ( Software dept.)
Number of indicated issues by customer

Convergence rate

Timeline Timeline
The number of indicated issues by Customer Bug convergence timing
(Compared to the same model in the previous fiscal year) (Compared to the same model in the previous fiscal year)

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The second challenge of Pipeline management

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The second challenge – Pipeline management

Restarted challenge of Pipeline management

Holistic approach in pipeline management


- Division manager’s leadership with holistic view had supported them to place
this challenge as an entire division’s mission across departments.

Pipeline simulation with 2 years to the end, and identified


Project start date(Project release date)
- Set the most recent customer milestone(Scheduled product release date) as their
calculation starting point, and did a backward scheduling to decide when to
start.(project start date=Project release date)

Concept work Proposal Proposal Final Product


starts Team starts Due date
Backwords Release date

Preceding Concept Proposal


work Design & Dev. Prod.
Study team

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The second challenge – Pipeline management

Bad multi-
multi-tasking were also in Planning dept.
- Reviewed work process from a “concept work” to “product release” in order to
see resource load.
- Found out that the timing for the release period of
their latest mobile phone model and the one for
preparation of next model proposal was duplicated,
and thus the resources were overloaded.
Sample: Resource load

Business division started to work as one team, and to


cooperate across departments.
Planning
Dept.
- Project members started supporting/working across department
with a holistic mind for more effective work process.
- Bad multi-tasking in Planning dept. had dramatically reduced, Holistic
Flow
and started synchronized with other departments as
Hardware Software
software and hardware department. Dept. Dept.

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Results from the second challenge

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Results from the second challenge

Acquired a spare time for the preceding study of next


mobile phone model within 1 year
- Concept work started proceeding 1.5 month earlier than before.
- Project members started to join in the concept work process.
- 2 months for the technical research/study was secured.
- Project start/release schedule for the next 2 years was clarified by pipeline
simulation.

Mobile phone business division


became a robust one team
through the change in Management!!
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Is the constraint disappeared?
-Voice from the champion in Sharp

<Annual Report2017>

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Management has changed?

Impression by champion in Sharp

“Thanks to this opportunity we had been tackling, we could find out and shared the common
goal among all the related departments, though the mission for each department is different.
This holistic mind set for everyone ahead to our customer is bringing results to the entire
business division.“

“ Realized that management ourselves has to be changed at first in order to accelerate the
cross functional challenges in projects. Strongly believes that it is the first step for the
management innovation.”

“ On the other hand, in reality, there are many other issues to promote holistic business
approach. 1. Silo mentality still exists in reality. 2. We are still on the way up to the goal by
cooperating across organization. 3. We have a confidence to achieve more results by sharing
business purpose and expanding our challenges to wider area of organization.”

Management innovation in Sharp


from silo to Holistic approach is now realizing
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Core team members in Sharp

Tom Goto, Being senior consultant


Implementing Mazda’s CCPM since 2008, and many other as IT, Pharmacy, Construction, etc..
Presented case studies at TOCICO and many other conferences

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Keywords for the successful implementation


1. Maximizing “FLOW”
2. Identifying "When Not to do"
3. Local Optima to Global Optima
4. Focusing mechanism to balance FLOW
5. Getting Management involved

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