Question

1.How do you develop a productivity improvement strategy?

2.How do you develop an implementation plan for the strategy?

Answer 1

Solution:

1. To develop a productivity improvement strategy we must first assess the areas which are lacking the required levels of productivity. It is necessary that we focus our productivity improvement plans only on areas that require improvements in their productivity to avoid conducting redundant work. In order to improve productivity, we must first identify the areas that require productivity improvements. We measure their current levels of productivity and then develop appropriate strategies that would help in improving the productivity of the particular department. The productivity improvement strategy will defer based on various departments and we must have a separate productivity improvement plan.
   The productivity can be improved by assigning achievable targets to the employees, keeping employees engaged in the work and allowing them to participate in the organization's operations, motivating the employees to work proactively. These are some of the activities that are essential in ensuring that the employees work proactively and thus this results in improved productivity of the employees because of a more involved workforce.
   Hence, these are some of the ways in which we can develop productivity improvement plans.
   
2. To implement a strategy we need a concrete action plan. Even more difficult than formulating the strategy is implementing it effectively. In order to implement the strategy effectively, we must divide the strategy into tactical and operations plans. We can then implement the operational plans and keep monitoring the progress of the strategy and tweak the tactical plans to ensure that the progress is towards the intended results from the strategy formulation. This is why it is very much essential for the successful development of the tactical and operational plans which are crucial to the successful implementation of the strategic plan for productivity improvement.
   We must constantly monitor our progress and check for the results from the implementation to ensure we have the right direction to work on and we can then proceed further with the next parts of the strategy implementation and hence it is required we have the mechanism ready to measure and monitor the progress appropriately without any lapse.
   Hence, these are some of the steps we can take to ensure that the strategy is implemented effectively.