How relevant are the Decision Making processes in today’s industrial fabric? Here we are, willing to reduce Carbon footprint, increasing the environmental footprint and we also talk about increasing the process efficiency! What is really interesting to observe is that, we still stick to the 20th century DM processes. Where the models are rigid and are not flexible on day to day variations. Like traditional processes, they are normally accounted and documented and then a feedback sessions are carried out after a month (at best) and the ‘talks’ about revisions are entertained. Here, we bump on to a major hurdle which is lack of room or space for innovation. The processes are not designed to accommodate beyond 10% variation and they stand a risk of total collapse or a seizing opportunity.
Is that really enough?
I made a small attempt to think in the direction, what if, we develop a tool which is Dynamic (in true sense) and where processes starting from production to logistics related issues to inventory management can be regulated on a day to day basis? Will that push us towards a six sigma model? I would like to think of linking risks and performances. A computerized model, which can update and regulate itself on real time basis and a system which can accommodate such variations.
But again, not everything can be computerized. Afterall, like the pilots claim, computers can never have the ‘instinct’ of a human. Here, we are talking about a computer integrated human interface. It can not be denied, the best DM processes come from the interactions of different human minds because unlike computers they are not programmed!
We have to be mindful of the fact, the processes, the technologies or even the dynamic DM tools are the best generated thoughts of the present generation and is limited to the resources available today! It is high time to understand that what is more suffocating than stagnant ideas is the limited scope of upgrading a technology, where ideas are brushed out because the processes are not designed to suite the needs of the next generation!
The DM process, which we are trying to develop, shall contain that 30% room for upgradation in all the aspects. I would rather like the tool to phase out in 10 years (by the time we are left with 10%) and the processes so strong that it could accommodate the innovations 20 years hence and where people can think of attaining or go beyond six-sigma. That would be a mark of a ‘Dynamic’ processes in true sense. That’s how we would like to generate a space for innovation inside our DM tool.
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