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Optimizing
Business Systems in China
Intensive Workshop (suitable for managers and
others who lead in business)
Taught by Pradeep Kumar.
Click here for Pradeep's profile.
Staying competitive in business is
always challenging, but doing business in China presents a unique set of
obstacles that can slow a business down or even bring it to a halt.
This course seeks to identify these challenges and to present a
systematic approach to overcoming them according to each individual
company's greatest advantage. This course is intended for managers
in leadership positions who are responsible for optimizing systems and
maximizing productivity, from strategy to execution. We will focus
on real-life business challenges presented by the students in the class
as our "case studies". A one or two page summary of these
challenges will be submitted by participants to the facilitator before
the beginning of the term. We will explore a variety of proven
methodologies for prioritizing, streamlining systems, waste reduction,
identifying bottlenecks, etc. including TOC, LEAN, 6Sigma, CCPM, TQ, and
a range of others. This is a broad-scoped course covering nearly
every aspect of production and its overlaps with HR issues as they
pertain to optimizing systems in a Chinese business environment.
Areas to be covered include:
China's competitive environment:
The challenges (Delivering quality at low price, Skilled people in short
supply, Attrition,
Copying of product, Loyalty of customers and Suppliers, etc.)
Difficulty in meeting these
challenges (direction of solution – simple approaches that can be easily
applied).
Framework of learning – simple model of work process (customer and
activities
defining work processes, nesting of processes, sub processes and
superior processes)
and system (cause and effect relationships). Three positions that
are important – owner
of the sub process, business system owner, and knowledge personnel.
Methods for
achieving goals.
Understanding conflicts in a business:
Operations, Sales, Project, Marketing, Measurements, Distribution,
Delegation, Communication, why they happen and how to address them
(clouds and injection, etc.) – chain, policies, priorities, traditional
beliefs, efficiency paradigm, etc.
Bringing operations under control to increase predictability:
Improving Responsiveness – DDP improvement
Job Shop simulation
Quality of service and products:
Meeting customer needs by quality management (Deming, 6 sigma)
Building Quality – Measuring defects, TQ tools, 'why why' analysis,
activity boards, small team activities
Measuring Quality – Defects, Specs, variability
Drivers of Quality – process management
Where to Start - Holes in buffer
How to use TQ tools for building quality
Reducing waste from system:
LEAN based suggestions and how it creates value – value, value chain,
flow, pull, perfection.
Work Process wastes (ops, transport, waiting, etc.)
Reducing Inventory and Investment:
Breakthrough improvement in working capital management (inventory) pull,
dbr, short cycle
WIP management, Ideal Location of ongoing constraint
Cycle time, touch time concept
Buffer size for constraint management
Growing Sales:
Relationships amongst customer issues and needs, CRT
Availability issues that hinder sales
Inventory conflict
Price conflict
How to create value
Increasing demand of your products – mafia offer, etc.
New Products in 'half the current lead time':
Project time reduction by applying CCPM
Manual simulation of safety for selecting number of dice throws to
achieve a number - how
safety is needed in each task
Multi tasking and waste
Buffer management for projects
Capacity management for increasing thru put:
Measurements play key role in behavior – additive case
Capacity increase – GOAL
Discussion on measurements - 527 model
Balance Score Card – weights of measures
Enhancing Employee Happiness:
Building long term growth strategy
Creating Enabling Environment
Key management skills (Delegation, Team Building, Communication).
Course Title: Doing
Business in China
Tuition Fee: RMB 6500
Spring Session 2010:
March 8th to April 22nd
Section A:
Monday and Thursday evenings (6:30
PM - 9:00 PM)
Registration Closed 7 weeks from
March 8th to April 22nd (Course Code: DB103)
Location: ELC Learning Annex
Section B:
Saturdays 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (lunch
12:00 to 1:00)
Registration Closed 5 weeks from
March 13th to April 10th (Course Code: DB104)
Location: ELC Learning Annex
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE
Registration Procedure:
Please register
online first to reserve your place.
You will then receive a confirmation email with further details.
Next, payment must be made on site at the ELC Learning Annex during the
payment dates shown below (you can come in person or send someone).
Tuition payment for the Spring Session 2010 will take place on
Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
and Monday, February 26th, 27th, 28th, and March 1st,
2010, between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m..
Payments will be received in Ground-Floor Classroom at our ELC Learning Annex.
Click here for map.
Please note: classes
are kept small for the students' benefit (generally between 6 and 12
people). Register early to reserve your place. Payment must
be received on time to complete your enrollment and maintain your
reservation in the class(es) for which you have registered.
(Any course that does not meet sufficient enrollment may be cancelled
and a full refund provided upon presentation of your original receipt.)
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