Do you have the Pivotal P's (Prepositions, Push, Pull) aligned correctly? If not, the impacts could be detrimental. Discover how to identify if your company has the Pivotal P’s wrong before it leads you to inefficiently organize your #IX program. 👇👇
Recently, LNS Research Fellow Tom Comstock published a blog article that addresses fundamental challenges within today's manufacturing approach to transformation, providing insights into how to:
🔸 Identify the inefficiencies within your Industrial Transformation (IX) program
🔸 Course correct to enable sustainable scale of your initiatives enterprise-wide
It all starts with understanding the Pivotal P's and learning from the lessons they teach.
➡️ The Power of Prepositions
Highlighting one of the most common organizational issues we see in IX, Prepositions are a lesson in avoiding stagnation or failure by recognizing the importance of ensuring IX programs are a JOINT effort. Organizations should be implementing IX initiatives WITH operations and the plants instead of TO or FOR them.
➡️ The Push
Making IX something you are doing TO or FOR operations and the plants is ultimately a technology push.
IX Leaders are 60% less likely to use “evaluating and testing technologies” as a core strategy in their IX Program and 31% more likely to use business improvement strategies to organize the program.
Understanding the power of technology to enable change is important but cannot be the organizing principle of the IX program.
➡️ The Pull
In other words, the goal is to get “pull” for digital technologies from the plants. Plants have significant demands on their capital, such as new equipment, upgrades to existing systems, other corporate technology initiatives, and new IX initiatives - new digital technologies are just one of many. Plants are, therefore, the ultimate arbiter of IX success.
Interested in learning more?
Check out the resources in the comments. 👇
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