THRG brought the
world’s most renowned faculty on this subject of Breakthrough Management, Prof.
Shoji Shiba, for the benefit of managers who intended to leave an indelible
mark on the organisations. Professor Shoji Shiba who
is an internationally renowned management expert and teacher, He was awarded
the 2002 Deming Prize for Individuals, Japan's highest management award for
individuals.
He held one day
program, organised by THRG with the help of CII, for a group of managers
largely coming from manufacturing industry. He was assisted by Mr N. Kalapi of
TechNova Imaging Systems.
The Thane HR
Group’s program at CII’s Centre for Excellence was a great success!
This is what Ms
Darshana Mandewal, Head-HR of Sunjewels Group ሳዕድ፣
"The program gave a good insight on three
types of management viz. controlled, incremental and breakthrough. It gave a
global perspective of countries response to change due to sudden /
unanticipated change in society. An excellent example given was of change in
mentality post tsunami and earthquake in Japan which was on three aspects save
electricity, become cost effective and community (family) is important.
The examples of changing market/
customer expectations scenario with data was shared and live case
examples of companies of their strategic moves was discussed with benefits for
the various involved parties . This increased the business perspective and gave
information of how to analyze and have a strategic direction for 2/3 years. The
10 X change was focused to explain the changes in strategy.
Labour disputes scenario of Japan was
discussed with clear solutions like Quality Circles. The methods to motivate
shop floor with various non monetary methods like infrastructure, good working
environment , Kaizen , alignment to business goals was explained . There was a
learning on Snowball strategy, theory X and Y, Prof Shoji Shiba’s model of 2-6-2,
and parallel organization . How to move from world of concept to world of FACT
was explained very well with examples. The beauty of the program was that it
had a high focus on discipline."
Thane HR Group
presented a Maharashtrian ‘pagdi’ to Prof Shoji Shiba.
Vivek