Every manager realizes that the person who knows their job the
Best is the employee who works it 8 hours a day. “IF ONLY…our employees would identify areas of waste and tell us where the opportunities for improvement are, we’d reap a windfall!”
You need a way to unlock those Bright Ideas floating around in your employees Heads….but before you hang that suggestion box....
...PLEASE WAIT! Consider these sobering statistics...
-9 out of 10 Suggestion programs fail within the first 6 months of deployment.
-Conventional “left brain” wisdom teaches that offering a percentage of the savings from ideas generated will lead to greatest success, and yet IBM found after a 10 year study that this does more harm than good.
-One auto manufacturer offered award points to employees for ideas submitted, and then became deluged with so many ideas that they were forced to approve the ideas and award points
without IMPLEMENTATION!
1 year later, their award costs totaled $3.4 million (of which $1.4 million was paid back out in income tax)
But not one of those ideas was ever implemented…and there was no savings or return on investment to the company!
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