Why Bother?: Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture

Author:   Chris Butterworth ,  Morgan Jones ,  Peter Hines
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032028293


Pages:   292
Publication Date:   26 October 2021
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Author:   Chris Butterworth ,  Morgan Jones ,  Peter Hines
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Productivity Press
Weight:   0.789kg
ISBN:  

9781032028293


ISBN 10:   1032028297
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   26 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents List of Figures .................................................................................. xiii List of Tables ................................................................................... xvii Foreword ......................................................................................... xix Acknowledgments ........................................................................... xxi About the Authors ......................................................................... xxiii Introduction ................................................................................. 1 1 Why Bother Getting Sponsorship? ............................................... 9 2 Why Bother Defining Behaviors and Linking Systems and Behaviors? ........................................................................... 15 3 Why Bother Assessing and Managing Behaviors? ..................... 33 4 Why Bother Designing Your Own Strategic Level Behavioral Assessment System? ................................................................... 71 5 Why Bother Defining Behaviors and KBIs? ............................. 103 6 Why Bother Focusing on the Type of Conversations People Have? ............................................................................ 137 7 Why Bother Seeing Where It Has Worked and the Lesson Learned? ….................................................................... 159 Case Studies: NBN Co. Case Study by Indrajit Ray, Clyde Livingston, and Richard Perry ........................................................................... 159 Panalpina Case Study by Andrew Lahy, Maria Pia Caraccia, and Mike Wilson ............................................................................ 167 Airbus Australia Pacific Case Study by Kim Gallant ............................. 177 CBA Case Study by Morgan Jones ......................................................... 185 Bakkavor Desserts— Measuring the Maturity of the CI System Case Study by John Bowman and Leighton Williams .................. 198 Virtual Assessments Case Study by Morgan Jones ................................ 212 8 Why Bother Aligning Assessments, Assessors, and Calibration? .............................................................................. 221 9 Why Bother Having a High- Level Roadmap to Deploy? ........... 245 10 Why Bother Doing Assessments? ............................................. 251 Appendix ........................................................................................ 255 Index .............................................................................................. 259

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Chris Butterworth is a multi-award-winning author, speaker, and coach. He is a certified Shingo Institute master-level facilitator and a Shingo Institute Faculty Fellow and examiner. He is the winner of Best New Speaker of the Year Award for The Executive Connection (TEC) for his talk on Lean Thinking and the co-author of the widely acclaimed Shingo publication award winning books 4+1: Embedding a Culture of Continuous Improvement and The Essence of Excellence and is also the editor of the Shingo Institute book Enterprise Alignment and Results. Morgan Jones has more than 30 years experience in Lean and twenty years in Six Sigma. He is a pragmatic and experienced improvement leader. He has delivered over $2.1 billion in hard savings to organizations, and improved customer-staff experiences and health and safety. The sustainability of business improvement have resulted in over twenty-three international awards and he has chaired twenty-seven international conferences around business improvement. He is also a Chartered Engineer, Certified Master Black Belt, Lean Master, and Executive Coach. Peter Hines is the co-founder of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) at Cardiff Business School-LERC which grew to be the largest academic research in Lean globally.He has undertaken extensive research into Lean and written or co-written twelve books, including the Shingo Prize winning books Staying Lean, Creating a Lean & Green Business System, and The Essence of Excellence.

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