> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 17:25:55 +0100
> From: tb@knipp.de (Thomas Bertels)
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> Another inportant point I would like to add is that companies need to
> stick to one change effoert at a time not only that change loses power in
> companies if you change too often (from JIT to quality circles to KAIZEN
> to KANBAN to TBM to TQM to SIXSIGMA to Learning Organization, every effort
> 1/2 year after another) - because people do not believe in it -, a
> constant effort routinizes learning which means it lifts thinking up and
> we begin to see the patterns...but for that we must practice, practice,
> practice.
>
> The question is: WHAT is the right amount of change which makes the
> company effective?
>
> tb@knipp.de (Thomas Bertels)
I don't know is this is the right question, and the issue of
amount of change might be more of externally determined issue. By this I
am saying that organizations may not have a lot of influence into how much
to change, which might be more influenced by competitive forces. What
bothers me the most is the fact that the different approaches are adopted
or presented as distinct, when they may be very closely related. The
ineterconnection between JIT, KAIZAN, KANBAN, TQM, Reengineering,
Organizational Learning to me is clear. In fact, in some cases one seems
to be really an improved (or more advanced) version of another. I
understand what you are saying if the company adopts one model today, and
dumps tomorrow to move on to a new one! But, there so many connections
and synergies that can be obtained when they are understood in an
integrative way. An example is something I have been saying for a long
time now is the TQM and Organizational Learning are so closely
interconnected that TQM would fail is OL is not allow to develop.
Ivan,
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