Russell Sherwood Thursday, December 21, 2017
I am not missing a letter A in the Title! This article came about after a work colleague read my article on Industrial Chess (He is not a Chess player but like myself a Change Management professional). How and why he read the article is another story but it did lead to an interesting discussion on the subject of process optimisation and one which led to me getting some friendly stick for not having applied Lean methods to my CC practice.
So what are Lean methods? These came out of Toyota (the Car manufacturers) approach production and are utilised in one form or another by most large organisations, both in Manufacturing and Services. In its most simple form, it is applied to process to standardise the time it takes and then eliminate waste within the steps.
Anyway over a drink, we outlined the steps of general CC practice (and my take on it) and some very interesting ideas came out of this. Putting these together meant, based on some basic calculations, around a 40% reduction in the time spent on each game, despite increasing the time spent analysing.
I won’t reveal more details on this until I have tried the approach out over the next few months but to give the interested reader a leg up. Consider the following:
Do you have a routine?
What are the stages of a CC Tournament and Game? (Think through a game, it's not just Opening, Middlegame and Endgame)
Do you approach the stages differently?
Do you approach each move the same way?
Are you consistent with this approach?
Exciting Times!
