A New Strategy for Continuous Improvement: 10 Steps to Lower Costs and Operational Excellence (Volume 1) - Hardcover

Slater, Phillip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0831133201 ISBN 13: 9780831133207

Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc., 2007

Synopsis

Developed from the author’s own practical experience, this unique resource details a proven, 10-step approach to cost reduction, and provides a series of tools to help you achieve sustainable cost reduction in your business while avoiding the damage of “slash and burn”. A New Strategy for Continuous Improvement presents a new ‘Operations Improvement Cycle’. This cycle provides the benchmark, priority and guidance that were missing in the original cycle. This is achieved through a three stage process involving 10 specific steps. Additionally, it explores the issues with the traditional approach to continuous improvement and cost reduction and then takes you through the three stages and the '10 Steps’ in detail. Working with this manual will change your approach to cost reduction forever. Not only will you save money on an ongoing basis, but these proven techniques will have an impact almost immediately!

• Explains the 10 steps to lower cost reduction and how to apply them and in what order.
• Includes 47 specific 'must do' actions for success.
• Details the 42 common mistakes people make.
• Discusses the truth that implementation is a process not just an entry on a Gantt chart.
• Contains 24 templates and worksheets that help guide your team through the entire process.
• Provides 20 case studies and real-life examples that can be applied to any business.

 

About this title

About the Author

Phillip Slater has more than 22 years of business improvement experience. While the last 12 of these have been spent in operations and management consulting, the first 10 were spent ‘hands on’ in industry learning by direct experience. It was during this time, and by learning from both his successes and failures, that Phillip developed many of the approaches that his company, Initiate Action, applies today.

Based on his experience, Phillip has authored a number of management books including A New Strategy for Continuous Improvement and Smart Inventory Solutions. Over the course of his career Phillip has worked in at least a dozen countries and across most industries. He presents training courses for APICS, is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and The National Speaker’s Association of Australia. Selected operational improvement achievements include:

• As a manager, taking an underperforming manufacturer to be the profit leader in its group of companies
• Assisting a client to achieve more than 20% in operational cost reduction
• Assisting other clients to achieve tens of millions of dollars of operational improvements
• Assisting a client to achieve a 42% reduction in inventory
• Assisting other clients to release millions of dollars in cash from excess inventory

For the past five years Phillip has donated his time as a Non Executive Director for Yooralla, one of Australia’s leading disability service providers.In addition to his operations improvement consulting work, Phillip is also available for corporate speaking and training.

Edition details

• Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0831133201
• ISBN 13: 9780831133207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180