When Your Only Constant Is Change, You Need to Bridge the Reality Gap
The next breakthrough in performance will come from learning to respond to plan variance better
Where is the Gap?
4 Steps to Bridge the Gap
Step 1: Get your Data
- Individuals must be self-empowered (meaning no IT involvement) to identify what they would like "watched" within their prescribed level of tolerance, and how/when they are to be notified.
- Unexpected events are not all created equal. The same event could be benign one day and critically urgent the next. Establishing a surveillance system that can alert individuals on the impending financial and operational impact of unexpected change (not just the change itself) is what business leaders are starving for.
Step 3: Empower People to Collaborate
Step 4: Merge Supply Chain Planning and Execution
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