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Total Improvement Management
(TIM) Seminar

Harrington

1/2 day Workshop

By
Jim Harrington
CORPORATE OFFICE

16080 Camino del Cerro, #100
Los Gatos, California 95032 USA
(800) 698-4270

www.harrington-institute.com

Topics

  • Why do we need to improve?
  • Quality – The Competitive Advantage
    • Why focus on the customer?
    • Unlimited goals
    • Why good enough is not good enough
    • Why meeting requirements is not the standard for excellence
  • Obtaining top management commitment
      • Why try to change?
      • What are the paybacks?
      • What is the CEO’s role?
  • Business Plan
  • Who is part of the planning cycle?
  • How to do a top-down bottom-up plan
  • Quality Policy Deployment
  • Improvement Visions and 3-Year Plan
    • Understanding where you are
    • Define where you want to go
    • Develop a plan to get there
  • Obtaining Total Management Participation
    • What does management fear?
    • How to lead
    • Why start with management
  • Securing Team Participation
    • Type of teams
    • Area Activity Analysis
    • Making teams effective
  • Obtaining individual involvement
    • Pay for performance
    • Why train?
    • Suggest system
    • Making it a “we” organization
  • Product Process
    • Do we have a product and is it a process?
    • How to measure and control
  • Business Process
    • What are they?
    • How do you measure them
    • How to save big dollars by streamlining them
  • Developing Supplier Partnerships
    • Who are our suppliers?
    • What are they important?
    • Who do we get better service and product at less costs
  • Rewards and Recognition
  • Poor-Quality Cost ( If we have the time)
  • What is the plan to go forward, to be the very best we can be?