Stop Daydreaming About Having More And Grasp A Hen That Lays Golden Eggs
Topics: improvement, breakthrough, process redesign, solution, leadership, management, profit
Everyone wants to get everything done that’s needed with little effort. Stop fantasizing for a moment, and let’s create that reality instead.
With focused effort on creating breakthrough solutions (ways of accomplishing 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources), you can turn those daydreams into everyday results.
The steps for creating a breakthrough solution are listed here:
1. Understand the importance of measuring performance.
2. Decide what to measure.
3. Identify the future best practice and measure it.
4. Implement beyond the future best practice.
5. Identify the ideal best practice.
6. Pursue the ideal best practice.
7. Select the right people and provide the right motivation.
8. Repeat the first seven steps.
This article looks at practicing to become more successful in accomplishing step six.
Think about several ways that you would like to get perfect results with minimal effort. Then select one or more of those opportunities to implement. In making this choice, be sure to evaluate your organization’s track record or your personal history for successfully making similar changes and other ways you can reduce risk.
Set Your Sights on the Stars
To select which opportunity or opportunities to pursue, first set an objective for each of your breakthrough solutions. Make the objective neither too modest nor too aggressive. Typically, a 20 times improvement is a mere threshold goal. You can probably reach a 40 times improvement with little more planning and implementation effort.
Make sure, too, that you will frequently realize some benefits along the way to your ultimate goal.
With those breakthrough solution objectives in mind, look for the best balance of benefits, costs, resources, and time to completion to select the breakthrough solution choice or choices you should pursue for approaching an ideal best practice.
It’s as Simple as One, Two, Three, Four
In any quest for the ideal best practice, think of at least four possible ways to reach the goal. When attempting such important breakthroughs, your chances of success are greatly increased by simultaneously pursuing several planning paths. Otherwise, a stumble on one path blocks the whole project.
Studies have also shown that if you design four ways to do something, the final cost will usually be about a third less than if you design only one way. If instead you find eight ways of doing something, costs will come down even more, but only by a maximum of an additional 15 percent. There is a point of diminishing returns on designing alternate plans, but you probably will run out of good ideas before you reach that limit.
I recommend that you begin with and focus on the simplest approaches. This direction will limit false starts and save much time and money.
Gain as You Go
Choose to gain benefits every six months or so. These progress steps will keep project participants from becoming bored and those who are funding the project encouraged. What’s a reasonable target? In most cases, you should be able to make at least a 10-fold improvement in six months or less. The exceptions come in areas that require extensive software development.
With this approach to targeting regular benefits, you’ll keep morale high, everyone will be excited about implementing more improvements, and you’ll avoid biting off more than you can chew.
Wake up! What are you waiting for?
Donald Mitchell is coauthor of six books including The 2,000 Percent Solution, and The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook. Read about creating breakthroughs through 2,000 percent solutions and receive tips by e-mail by registering for free at
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