{"id":617,"date":"2015-06-14T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2021-01-14T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:56:54","slug":"do-all-that-you-can-to-raise-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/do-all-that-you-can-to-raise-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Do All That You Can To Raise Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this interesting video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economicprinciples.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How the Economic Machine Works<\/a> Ray Dalio describes some key principles of economic growth. He has three rules for economic improvement. Rule Three is <strong>Do All That You Can To Raise Productivity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most powerful tools for productivity improvement are Lean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/lean-value-stream-mapping.html\">Value Stream Mapping<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/lean-spaghetti-diagram.html\">Spaghetti Diagramming<\/a>. The 15-2-20 Rule says that for every 15 minutes of unnecessary delay removed from a process, a business can <strong>double productivity<\/strong> and increase profits by 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>All you need are sticky notes, a flip chart and an hour or two to identify and remove unnecessary delays and movement from any business process.<\/p>\n<p>Want to flatten out the boom-bust cycle of business? Start using the productivity-enhancing tools of Lean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interesting video of How the Economic Machine Works Ray Dalio describes some key principles of economic growth. He has three rules for economic improvement. Rule Three is Do All That You Can To Raise Productivity. Perhaps the most powerful tools for productivity improvement are Lean Value Stream Mapping and Spaghetti Diagramming. The 15-2-20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lean","category-manufacturing","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}