I wrote about agility earlier this week and the 5 elements of competitive advantage it delivers (there’s a real mapping to company strategy inside each of those items – but that’s for another day). In this week’s video I change the focus to “how” you implement agility. Go well.
Transcript
Earlier on this week, I wrote about how agility is the foundation of growth and efficiency imprint on demand. But let’s look at the how. Too many factories run on what I call tribal knowledge. The one or two staff members who know every quirk, edge case and exception, which means when something is a little different or it goes wrong, everyone scrambles to find those people and ask, well, what do we do? But that’s not agility, that’s firefighting and it’s inefficient. It also means all the IP of the business sits in the heads of those two people. And that’s really dangerous when it comes time to sell your business or you lose one of those staff. Trilogility comes when you capture that know-how in a repeatable framework. It’s when your processes live in software, not just in someone’s head. The system itself knows how to handle exceptions and problems. And the beauty of it is that once processes are in the system, executing them becomes simple. A barcode scan, a machine log, a click of a button and the workflow is understood, tracked and repeatable. That shift from making it up as you go along to the system just knows is what allows you to scale, recover from setbacks and grow without stress. Because the bottom line is that agility is not just speed, it’s resilience. And resilience is the bedrock of growth. If you’d like to know more, reach out. We’d love to talk with you about agility in print-on-demand manufacturing.
