Turn one department around in ninety days
You take over a department with high absenteeism, unstable output and a cost per piece above plan. You have ninety days and no extra headcount budget.
Who this is for: Factory and department managers, human resources staff and finance business partners.
What you produce: A ninety-day plan: the diagnosis with numbers, the people plan, the cost plan, the daily management routine and the review measures.
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Task 1
Diagnose with numbers: what you measure in the first two weeks and what each measure would tell you.
What a good answer contains: A good answer collects absenteeism, attrition, efficiency, rework and cost variance before acting, and states the comparison period.
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Task 2
Write the people plan: skills matrix gaps, supervision capability, and the two changes most likely to reduce absence and attrition.
What a good answer contains: A good answer treats supervisor behaviour and early-weeks support as causes of attrition and avoids blaming operators as a group.
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Task 3
Write the cost plan: the three largest controllable cost lines and what a realistic improvement is on each.
What a good answer contains: A good answer separates controllable from allocated cost and sets improvements it can justify from measured waste.
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Task 4
Design the daily management routine: the meeting, the board, the measures and the escalation.
What a good answer contains: A good answer keeps the routine short, visual and action-based, with an escalation path that reaches a decision maker the same day.
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