approach
On average, organizations effectively use only 50% of their production capacity. Taurus Concepts helps companies to increase their production capacity by streamlining their business processes.
Our approach results in a sustainable improvement of your company’s performance: A reduction in production costs and an improvement in productivity. We are focused on results - we prefer action over theorizing about issues.
One of the key obstacles to an effective production process is poor communication. Department A should know how her actions affect department B. Taurus Concepts creates platforms in which people communicate effectively, resulting in high-quality outcomes.
Another crucial factor in improving productivity is employee commitment. Commitment leads to support and support leads to proactive behavior. When staff is carefully coached, a proactive attitude results in a problem-solving mentality and corresponding behavior.
Taurus Concepts’ bottom-up approach creates the necessary commitment and facilitates proactive behavior.
We are focused and on target; like a Taurus.
The Basics
Root causes of excessive pacing & unproductive time:
- The processes are not streamlined and thereby ineffective.
- There is no or only a poor planning with no overview of the tasks and activities
- Management is planning or managing on the wrong data
- Lack of communication between work floor and supervisory level.
There is no constructive platform to interact or to engage issues.
Methodology
- Based on Lean/ Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints.
- Focus on Behavioral change for maximum ownership.
- Involvement on every level. From work floor level till CEO level
Timeline
- Two weeks of free assessments gives the amount of time / capacity wasted in the company
- Eight weeks to identify the EXACT reason of the amount of waste. In pocket savings after the 6th week.
- Six weeks to generate the solutions
- Twenty weeks to implement and create ownership of new business methods
- After the project: Bi-monthly or quarterly, one week of assessment to secure the process of continuous improvements
- Taurus Concepts is active in these sectors:
- Manufacturing
- Health care
- Financial services
- Retail
- Food & beverage
- Mining
- Obstacles to improvements are:
- Labor pool issues (poor quality of employees, staff shortage or surplus)
- Low morale
- High staff turnover
- Ineffective internal communication
- Complex legislation and regulation
- Misalignment of staff performance and bonus metrics with corporate goals/objectives results in unfair compensation and lower productivity.
- Senior management's inability to implement change results in lower productivity.
- Managers, on average, spend only 11% of their time increasing productivity through active leadership.
- Managers are buried under reports they don't use to manage.
Only 60% of the reports are used to manage. - On average, managers spend 35% of their time on paper work.
For these tasks, 25% of a manager's time is preferred. - Most managers believe they can increase productivity 13.8%.
However, the actual average increase tends to be 9.8%. - The biggest challenge a company can face is that of a culture change.
- On average, 70% of companies is willing to improve productivity.
- These 4 factors are pivotal in achieving organization-wide improvements in processes and controls:
- Management
- Workforce
- Communications
- Training
- Cost reductions can be seized through:
- Business process streamlining
- Effective management control systems
- Extensive training
- The Taurus Concepts approach results in:
- Increased productivity
- Proactive staff behavior
- Strong competitive positioning
- Involvement of company's employees
- Supervisory competence is a key factor in improving productivity.
- On average, managers receive only 6 days of training per year.
- These 3 factors need to be in place to achieve organizational effectiveness & quality, and minimize waste:
- Effective supervision
- Workforce comprehension and support of processes
- Transparent communication
- During the past few years, workforce productivity has dropped to an average of 2 productive/3 unproductive days per week.