Organisations looking to improve their performance often latch onto a particular methodology - such as Lean, Six Sigma or Concurrent Design etc - and although they might rename it the 'Performance Improvement Programme' to disguise the origin of the programme (which happens particularly in organisations which have tried a variety of improvement activities and failed) it remains at heart a pure approach to improvement based on the experience of the organisation and any advice they take.
However, given that situations vary and that even similar departments can have widely differing cultural and operational problems, and also given that many problems in organisations need to be linked to their strategic issues, I propose that it would be better to use a flexible, hybrid approach to improvement which draws the best from a wide range of disciplines.
Whilst this places a requirement on the management team to have a broad understanding of different improvement approaches, as well as being experts in whatever their organisation does, it will result in a more flexible, more customised and ultimately more sustainable improvement programme.
What do you think?
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