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Why do Process Improvements Fail ?

Most Organizations are no strangers to change. There is constant pressure to achieve more in less time and usually with less resource. Shareholders demand a better return on their investment; down-stream consumer companies demand reductions in the prices they are asked to pay for supplies. With this type of pressure, change has been almost constant in many organisations since the mid-sixties. Thinking back, over recent years we have seen such quality improvement schemes as total quality initiative, (TQI), total quality management, (TQM), business process reengineering, (BPR), restructuring, lean, kaizen and now six-sigma. Some of these initiatives have had varying levels of success, others have been dismal failures, and the experience will have varied from company to company, and maybe even between different divisions of the same company. What this comes down to is that change is all around us, and often the only constancy is change itself. Who in industry has gone more than two years ...

3 Years Of Life Saving !!!

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It has been alomost 3 Years since I joined at GVK EMRI.The second job after my MBA from SCMLD. When I look back at these 3 Years, I find that my stay with GVK EMRI was very fruitful in these days. I had lots & lots of experiences , learnings , sharings which I would love to cherish in the rest of my life. I joined this Organization as a Management Trainee, struggled through the Organizational Learnings, Learned from every person @ every moment. YES, I was learning in my initial 1 Year @ GVK EMRI. Had felt tough times when I had to travel across alone for doing ambulance Audits in the Villages of Andhra Pradesh, without even knowing the language. That days, I cursed myself for taking the decesion of joining this Organization. But , as the saying goes..Tough Times never last long, but Tough People DO....Yes, Now I understand that those tough days, where only to make me much stronger.... I was also a Carrier oriented Person, waiting to rise in the Organizational Ladder. But, intitial ...