'My House is Clean' syndrome
Organizations undertake improvement initiatives. The expected outcome of the improvement initiatives is to bring about a positive change in the performance of the entity. The initiatives range from incremental and consistent to breakthrough improvements. The initiatives are titled differently. Sometimes it is a radical BPR, in some other instances it is adoption of Lean practices or in some other it may be Six sigma. All these lead to a structural change in the processes and in certain instances policies of the organi z ation undertaking the initiative. In most of the cases, these initiatives would impact the entity which initiates the improvement initiative. e.g. a large OEM undertaking an initiative to be 'Lean'' or some OEM implementing a 'Pull Based Replenishment system'. These systems bring about a change in the way the organi z ation now plans the flow of the product. The initiatives like pull based system or vendor managed inventory or Kanban put the ...