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The benefits
Hard benefits:
- Quick, tangible improvements - 20% to 50% typical productivity benefit
- Cost savings leading to return on investment in the range 4 to 8
times
- Significant improvements to delivery reliability
- Improvements to quality
- Improved benchmarking capability
Soft benefits:
- Skills transferred to in-house team and front-line managers
- Re-invigorated teams with a “can-do” attitude and the confidence
to do it themselves
- Enthusiasm of staff harnessed and improved morale, leading to reduced
staff turnaround and absenteeism
- Front-line managers and operators taking responsibility for their
own areas
- Team based problem solving and associated activities becoming embedded