methods design concept

Real Story: Productivity Vision Revolution into Action

Productivity has been improved by 276% in four years within companywide activities.
B company had a few opportunities to get outside management consultants support more than 20 years. But top management had discouraged such support because they thought there was no co […]

Real Story on Reducing the Required Manning Number

One board member had an opportunity to learn a unique company reestablishment story from a dealing bank in Japan.
Then the board started to find the story and become to know that the company had implemented MDC as setting reasonable and/ or fair manning with reasonable en […]

Methods Design Concept (MDC): The Future of Improvements

Profitability and productivity are and will remain the core challenges of any company. In this context, some questions arise: What methodology can be used to design a working method at the shop floor level? How to set a goal for designing the future work method? Wha […]

From Multiannual and Annual Productivity and Costs Policy Deployment to Productivity Master Plan

As presented in the previous episode, Aligning Profitability and Productivity Scenarios and Strategies to Productivity Core Business Goals (PCBG), after setting the two profitability and productivity scenarios (in case of incr […]