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9 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Most companies realize the ever-existing conflict between Quality Control and Production functions, but unfortunately, very few have realized or thought of the function that bridges the gap between them, namely the Quality Assurance. It was more than...
6 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Joyce Wycoff in his book “Transformation Thinking” says: ‘When an organization commits to creating an environment which stimulates the growth of everyone in the organization, amazing things start to happen: ideas pop up everywhere, people start to wo...
4 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
“Would you please help me print out this ‘WBS’? It won’t fit in one page. I have a status meeting with the Sponsor in 30 minutes!” a colleague of mine approached me and asked. “This is not a WBS! It is a Schedule in a form of hierarchal structure.” I...
3 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Increased complexity in contemporary projects puts a heavy burden on the project management profession. Project Managers do no longer have the luxury to be task-oriented only; they need to evolve into Project Leaders in order to bring success to thei...
2 Mar 2021 4 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Every person has a mission in his life, whether explicit or implicit, structured or disorganized. Successful people state their missions explicitly. They strive to achieve them through systematic planning, doing, checking, and acting on results to ke...
1 Mar 2021 3 minute read 1 comment MohdBarakat
During the early days of a project, the project team needs to have a ‘compass’ guiding to the effective and efficient achievement of project objectives. It is imperative to create a binding document that defines the project’s stakeholders, and outlin...
28 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Being lean or fat for an organization is an outcome of its own internal practices. Likewise, the transformation process from one state to the other can be achieved at its own discretion. However, not all fat-lean transformations are healthy. Amongst...
27 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
The difference between a lean and a fat organization is waste. Lean + Waste = Fat, if you will. Hence, for an organization to transform into a lean state it should trim as much waste as possible. But, what is Waste anyways? and what variant shapes co...
26 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Rooting out process or system wastes along with their causes is a key step for effective fat-to-lean transformation endeavor. A handful of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tools can be used to eliminate wastes. However, institutionalizing a waste eliminatio...
25 Feb 2021 5 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
An environment where people have to think brings with it wisdom, and this wisdom brings with it Kaizen (continuous improvement).– Teruyuki Minoura, former President and CEO of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Traditional continuous improvement projects ar...
