CI can’t be one more thing.
Featuring Jess Orr
Leader247 Episode 13: Beyond Toyota — Building a Continuous Improvement System That Lasts
In this video from Episode 13, Jess Orr explains what operational excellence leaders often underestimate about business leaders: the pressure they are already under.
When CI is presented as another initiative, leaders naturally see risk. They already have shipments, financial results, customer issues, people problems, and operational pressure competing for attention.
Jess makes the point from experience: until you sit in the P&L seat, it is difficult to fully understand that pressure. CI leaders need to translate improvement into something that helps leaders solve real problems, not something that adds weight to an already overloaded system.
Key Insights
Business leaders often experience CI as one more initiative.
Operational excellence leaders need to understand executive pressure before prescribing solutions.
CI gains traction when it helps leaders solve the problems already on their plate.
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