The Time Based Organisation: Recreating and Transforming Existing Organisations

The Time Based Organisation.Transforming value adding capability - Improving supply chain Synchronisation - Identifying waste and untapped potential - Empowering employees and teams to remove waste.This book describes time based organisations and the analysis tools and techniques that can transform any organisation to be guided and driven by time. Findings from a range of Manufacturing and Service Organisation’s over a thirty year period of research reveal high non value adding time with poor value adding capability and huge amounts of untapped potential.Most organisations have never been designed to add value and looking through the lens of time reveals huge amounts of untapped potential and waste. It is possible to improve and transform an existing organisations value adding capability using a time based framework, this is much more structured than lean methods. A product, service or health patient can be tracked through the entire organisation to record when value is added in relation to the total calendar time consumed. Results often reveal long throughput times and huge amounts of untapped potential and waste in each organisation analysed. Looking through the lens of time at a single product, person or service the average value adding time in the UK is usually less than 25% (Less than 25 days of value adding work in 100 days of elapsed calendar time). Many organisations are much worse and in one public sector service organisation the value adding time was just 4% and it took 104 weeks of calendar time to add 4 weeks of value. Unfortunately many manufacturing organisations have closed but the author believes that they held a lot of untapped potential and could have survived to be much more effective and efficient. Government public service sector organisations also often ask for more tax payers money but findings reveal a lot of non value adding time.It would appear from the results gathered in this book that the majority of organisations were never really designed to add value and simply just evolved over the years as a series of separate functions with their own ways of working. Time based analysis looks at the organisation through the eyes of a customer and the lens of time to identify waste and guide restructuring teams. Transformation results include - 550% increase in profitability, 28% improvement in output per employee, 60% reductions in inventory, lower fixed costs, substantial throughput time reductions, empowered employees. One UK CEO stated - This book is a must for all MD’s, GM’s and Operations Directors and anyone looking to improve the efficiency of the entire value adding process.