How Policies Can be Barriers to Success

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Policies are Barriers to Performance Success

Are old policies making your business sluggish and irritating customers?



“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].

“Some years ago I worked with a credit union. They were having trouble because on Friday nights there were really long lines [with] everybody trying to cash their paychecks and everything else. They were struggling. They also had a problem because when they lost a teller it took them 80 days to get a new teller in.

“We started looking at the process for doing that [with a] little value stream map. The very first thing they did was they offered that job to the rest of the company.

Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.