Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish systems to monitor progress towards becoming competitive
- Identify areas of manufacturing practice to improve in consultation with work teams and other employees
- Identify work teams and areas which could be making better progress towards desired future state
- Examine competitive tools being used and their contribution towards progress
- Examine other work practices and their contribution towards progress
- Manage the required stakeholder consultations
- Agree on the cause or causes of progress which is not to plan
- Determine appropriate competitive tools use to improve progress
- Develop an implementation plan
- Facilitate the improvement to manufacturing practice across the enterprise
- Obtain support and necessary approvals from process/system owners
- Arrange for the introduction of new tools or modifications to existing tool practice as required
- Arrange for skills and other infrastructure development as required
- Consult with stakeholders including value chain members about the impact of these changes
- Manage implementation of proposed changes to tools use