Performance Hubs : Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement

Title: Performance Hubs : Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement
Author: Marc Roberts
ISBN: 1439861331 / 9781439861332
Format: Soft Cover + CD ROM
Pages: 188
Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2012
Availability: In Stock

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A must-read for all managers, leaders, and change agents, Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement supplies a proven system for engagement that allows teams to use their own data, understand the need for performance improvement, and drive improvements at their own level. Highlighting common pitfalls in improvement initiatives, it provides the tools to help you avoid the disinterested cultural response to improvement efforts that is all too common in organizations suffering from initiative overload.

The book details a comprehensive solution to help all employees visualize operational performance. It explains how to cascade the right metrics across all levels of your business to trigger the appropriate use of Lean/Six Sigma tools and techniques into strategic process areas. Demonstrating how to link all continuous improvement activities to address the key issues affecting performance, the book :

  • Explains what a performance hub is and provides the clarity needed for full organizational deployment
  • Describes the four key headings under which a performance hub is configured
  • Follows the natural implementation sequence of events for successful deployment of Performance Hubs
  • Includes Top Tips in each chapter to aid in smooth implementation and to enable sustained results


This book and the electronic tool kit on the accompanying CD provide all the working documents—including project management aids, templates, and slides—you and your teams will need to get started. Clarifying how to make continuous improvement a daily habit across all segments of your organization, the authoritative advice provided in these pages will help you align all improvement activities with the current and future needs of your business.

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Acknowledgments

Section I : Warm Up
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Lean Leadership
Chapter 3 : Performance Hub at a Glance

Section II : Implementation

Chapter 4 : The Deployment Plan and The Project Hub
Chapter 5 : Identifying The Right Metrics
Chapter 6 : The Review Structure
Chapter 7 : Visual Performance Hub at Senior Management/Director Level
Chapter 8 : Visual Performance Hub at The Management Level
Chapter 9 : Visual Performance Hub at The Team Level

Section III : Routine Behaviors
Chapter 10 : The Art of Facilitation
Chapter 11 : Target Setting
Chapter 12 : Making Robust Improvements
Chapter 13 : Applying The Right Medicine
Chapter 14 : Holding The Gains
Chapter 15 : Virtual Performance Hubs
Chapter 16 : The Pitfalls

Section IV : Implementation and Engagement AIDS
Chapter 17 : Useful Icebreakers and Flips
Chapter 18 : How to Use The Accompanying CD

About The Author
Index