Productivity of human resources
Labour intensive processes require the careful allocation of human resources. Waste (muda) needs to be eliminated by all means. The customer demand alone decides what should be considered the added value. The assignment to do the right things is at the heart of the matter. Productivity in that context translates into flexibility rather than into increased work load.
The "right things" in terms of the employees are those things that benefit the individual pay check. That is the reason why CIM Aachen considers state of the art compensation schemes which are aligned to what the market demands crucial for productivity in the context of human resources.
CIM Aachen helps you to increase productivity
- with the implementation of a team oriented shop floor organization that leaves operational decision making within the team and
- with a compensation model that focusses decentralized decision making into the „right“ direction.
To eliminate waste in administration CIM Aachen suggests to transfer methods of Lean Management from the shop floor to the "overhead" departments. Lean Administration is a promising approach to streamline white collar operations and to focus these areas on adding value.
An efficient organisation that ensures unambigouos lines of communication and accountability is a prerequisite for the above mentioned approaches to yield results. And the operations need to be scaled in advance. To leave an overstaffed organization on it’s own and to expect that it will sqeeze out excess staff is bad management.
Better to mandate CIM Aachen for professional assistance to adress structural problems that make a fundamental reorganisation necessary. The appropriate means are the overhead value analysis (OVA) for administration or the Green-Field approach to scale operations.
