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B. Option-rich productivity frameworks

The Dramatic (Productivity) Improvement Cycle

The productivity concept

Productivity is the rate at which what we get out exceeds what we put in. Productivity improvement is about:

1. Increasing what we get out.
2. Reducing what we put in.
3. Doing it more often.
4. Doing it less expensively.

The Dramatic Improvement Cycle

1. Key everything to ideal outcomes.
2. Define the success measurements.
3. Identify the prerequisites for success.
4. Expose the universal performance-limiting problem.
5. Deduce the intuitive response to the universal problem.
6. Describe the natural consequences (inevitable bad results).
7. Work up a counter-intuitive universal solution that:
   1. Accelerates throughput
   2. Minimises inventory
   3. Reduces (compacts) lead-time
   4. Improves quality
   5. Increases expertise and
   6. Transforms the experience.
8. Predict the natural prosequences (inevitable good results).
9. Define the value proposition for each party.
10. Implement in short, fast, ever-advancing cycles.

The Kiwi Ingenuity Framework is a simplified version of this framework.

Other frameworks

We’ve developed a fairly comprehensive set of additional frameworks, in basic and advanced versions:

1. The process/service optimisation framework.
2. The automation framework.
3. The innovation framework.
4. The communication framework.
5. The engagement framework.
6. The synergy framework.
7. The programming framework.
8. The transformation framework.

The frameworks can be applied, independently and in combination, at an individual or organisational level – with slightly different techniques, of course.