The number one barrier to implementing process improvement is people. If people don’t own it, it will be a slow, expensive process and everyone will become fatigued with the fight. The plan will ultimately be replaced by the next new process in the hope that a fresh idea will energize adoption.
Process is critical to success but it must be adopted by people to succeed. Success is achieved only through adoption and ownership—not by imposing change. When people own it, they make it happen faster, sustain it longer and require less oversight and direction by outside agents thus greatly reducing the cost of implementation.
The NXThinking approach focuses on the five key human metrics of process improvement implementation: