Stopping the Stupid is becoming a rallying cry at organizations who are activating their team members and managers to confront the small yet frequent flaws in work systems that get in the way of personal and organizational success.
Here’s a just a couple recent stories of victory by team members who are ignited as PROACTIVE Problem Solvers of Broken Work Systems.
Stopping the Stupid – Warehouse Reorganization Saves 7 minutes/order. The company fulfills about 150 orders for spare or replacement parts each day. The team that picks and packs the parts for shipping recently found a way to Stop The Stupid amount of walking they do each day. They saved 7 minutes of walking for each order by moving the 200 top selling parts to racks near the front of the warehouse. Voila! Less walking and greater productivity.
Stopping the Stupid – Educating the People Entering The Data – A team was responsible for checking the paperwork associated with custom orders. It was a very frustrating job as some 90% of the time an error was made on the forms. They sorted the mistakes and found the three input areas on the forms that constituted the highest percentage of errors. Then, they went to each error source to identify the cause of the errors. To their surprise it was mostly because of change over in staffing. New people that were assigned to enter the data were not being trained properly. When they instituted new training, VOILA!, the mistake levels dropped immediately.
In both cases – the solution was not “rocket science” rather it was simple common sense. And, it was activated by those close to the work – working with their team leader.
Friends – YOU TOO can STOP THE STUPID that prevents you and your team from realizing personal and organizational success.
Cheers
Doug Hall
Founder – Eureka! Ranch
Co-Founder – Dexter Bourbon Company from the Brain Brew Distillery
Co-Founder – Eureka! Ranch Distilled Spirits Group
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