Lean Sailors Win
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Here's the predicament: you lot present upwards at a sailing regatta, in addition to when the other teams complain that they’ve never raced together, your squad reflects that most convey never fifty-fifty sailed. At all. And, oh yeah, your squad is all MIT graduate students.
But, HVE pupil Adam Traina leads alongside criterion endure in addition to visual management to meet problems, mid race in addition to subsequently race pauses to solve problems, in addition to in addition to then patch of report inwards sustaining solutions until the side yesteryear side problem. The squad moves from dead in conclusion inwards the foremost round, to fifth, second, in addition to finally an unassailable foremost inwards the in conclusion races.
From the story:
“We started alongside a huge hit of sailing sense in addition to applied cardinal principles from sailing in addition to management to larn to operate inwards a novel environment,” Traina said. “Our team’s positive attitude, mightiness to larn chop-chop in addition to active listening to each other were the key elements inwards our success.”
The students used an array of LGO ("Leaders for Global Operations") tools to endure good together equally crewmates. “We implemented criterion endure yesteryear preparation each fellow member of the squad for i specialized job, in addition to nosotros used a visual management organization to cue each teammate on when to execute their tasks,” Traina said inwards an email, adding that their “robust verbal communication protocol” kept squad members informed. Also, betwixt each race in addition to at the destination of each day, the squad held kaizen sessions to meliorate their processes. “The kaizens led to rebalancing workloads in addition to novel discoveries most the operational features of the vessels,” he said.
The most challenging LGO lesson to apply, he said, was the Toyota production organization practise of stopping a production delineate to solve problems. “In the middle of a race, stopping the boat spell inwards foremost house goes against every instinct—yet halt the boat nosotros did, making a security environs long plenty to cook rigging that was fouled on the bow therefore nosotros could maintain to race,” Traina said. “Stopping the boat terms us our lead, only nosotros were able to find command in addition to ultimately win the race equally a consequence of fixing our issues instead of sailing on alongside them.”
And here's the best part:
The winning squad brought dwelling a trophy in addition to a Rolex watch, only coming out on peak wasn’t their goal. The MIT Sloan squad decided at the showtime that their mission was simple: "to come upwards dwelling alongside to a greater extent than friends than nosotros left with," Traina said.
The most challenging LGO lesson to apply, he said, was the Toyota production organization practise of stopping a production delineate to solve problems. “In the middle of a race, stopping the boat spell inwards foremost house goes against every instinct—yet halt the boat nosotros did, making a security environs long plenty to cook rigging that was fouled on the bow therefore nosotros could maintain to race,” Traina said. “Stopping the boat terms us our lead, only nosotros were able to find command in addition to ultimately win the race equally a consequence of fixing our issues instead of sailing on alongside them.”
And here's the best part:
The winning squad brought dwelling a trophy in addition to a Rolex watch, only coming out on peak wasn’t their goal. The MIT Sloan squad decided at the showtime that their mission was simple: "to come upwards dwelling alongside to a greater extent than friends than nosotros left with," Traina said.