Just to recap, tools used in the IMPROVE Phase are listed below. In this article, I will cover the tools in bold:

Brainstorming of action / solution | Selection Grid | Benchmarking | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Control lot and testing | Pilot the action / solution | Force-Field Analysis | Prevention Planner

Problem with Benchmarking

a) Benchmark the result
In most cases, teams work on projects that are assigned by management. Come along with the project is the assigned target. These targets are normally taken from the budget which has been committed to the shareholders during the budget time. Subsequently, the target figures are used to compute operating costs.

After team is set up, team would follow the steps in the D.A.I.C. methodology. When team arrived at setting target, there were incidence teams still debate how realistic was the target given by the management. Team failed to realize that the target is a minimum benchmark figure as far as budget is concerned.

b) Benchmark the process
In many occasions, members from one plant visited another would agree the visited plant is better, their process are more efficient and so on. When asked to use the visited plant processes performance as a benchmark, member give many reasons why they are different from the visited plant hence can

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> are listed below. In this article, I will cover the tools in bold:

Brainstorming of action / solution | Selection Grid | Benchmarking | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Control lot and testing | Pilot the action / solution | Force-Field Analysis | Prevention Planner

Problem with Benchmarking

a) Benchmark the result
In most cases, teams work on projects that are assigned by management. Come along with the project is the assigned target. These targets are normally taken from the budget which has been committed to the shareholders during the budget time. Subsequently, the target figures are used to compute operating costs.

After team is set up, team would follow the steps in the D.A.I.C. methodology. When team arrived at setting target, there were incidence teams still debate how realistic was the target given by the management. Team failed to realize that the target is a minimum benchmark figure as far as budget is concerned.

b) Benchmark the process
In many occasions, members from one plant visited another would agree the visited plant is better, their process are more efficient and so on. When asked to use the visited plant processes performance as a benchmark, member give many reasons why they are different from the visited plant hence ca

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mark the result
In most cases, teams work on projects that are assigned by management. Come along with the project is the assigned target. These targets are normally taken from the budget which has been committed to the shareholders during the budget time. Subsequently, the target figures are used to compute operating costs.

After team is set up, team would follow the steps in the D.A.I.C. methodology. When team arrived at setting target, there were incidence teams still debate how realistic was the target given by the management. Team failed to realize that the target is a minimum benchmark figure as far as budget is concerned.

b) Benchmark the process
In many occasions, members from one plant visited another would agree the visited plant is better, their process are more efficient and so on. When asked to use the visited plant processes performance as a benchmark, member give many reasons why they are different from the visited plant hence ca

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After team is set up, team would follow the steps in the D.A.I.C. methodology. When team arrived at setting target, there were incidence teams still debate how realistic was the target given by the management. Team failed to realize that the target is a minimum benchmark figure as far as budget is concerned.

b) Benchmark the process
In many occasions, members from one plant visited another would agree the visited plant is better, their process are more efficient and so on. When asked to use the visited plant processes performance as a benchmark, member give many reasons why they are different from the visited plant hence ca

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b) Benchmark the process
In many occasions, members from one plant visited another would agree the visited plant is better, their process are more efficient and so on. When asked to use the visited plant processes performance as a benchmark, member give many reasons why they are different from the visited plant hence cannot meet the benchmark processes. In many case, even the management are in agreement to their rationale.
How to Overcome Benchmarking Problem
a) Benchmark the result
There are two schools of thoughts dealing with this issue. Firstly, to challenge the target set by the management with data to support your justification. You may should some trend of some historical data but keep in mind that data are historical. Strictly speaking, while historical data provides a trend in the past it does not fully support prediction for the future. Since there is no absolute truth to its justification, the assigned target is good as anybody else guesses. Under such circumstance, management would not convince to change the target.

Secondly, instead of spending time to justify how the target is too high, team might as well analysis what it takes to meet the assigned target. Most of the time, team complained that those assigned targets are unreasonable. Due to this fact, I always advocate the team that they must think of some unreasonable actions in order to get those unreasonable results. There is a saying “Only idiot would think of getting different result by doing similar things”

b) Benchmark the process
There is no better way to insist team to improve pro