October 27, 2017
Successful businesses or organisations always seek to minimise errors and achieve error-free performance from employees when possible. It is for this reason that leading philosophies, such as Kaizen, guide organisations in pursuing production objectives.
Kaizen, a concept that simply translates to continuous improvement, has its roots in Japan, where it was advanced by Masaaki Imai in his book titled Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success. The idea advanced by the Kaizen concept is that organisations that seek to achieve perfect results must always pursue continuous improvements to their production, administrative or management processes.
Perfection and continuous improvement cannot be achieved without high levels of competencies among your employees. In fact, competency is a principle that you should inculcate into the cultural dimensions of your organisation. Employees must demonstrate input, behavioural and output competencies on both an individual and collective basis in order to be able to establish a solid operational and strategic profile for your organisation.
Indeed, for a workforce to be able to overcome the complex competitive landscape and the emerging challenges of the 21st century, it must possess unrivalled technical competencies and results-oriented mentalities. You should create a work environment in which employees can give it their all in terms of skills, attitudes, value orientations, knowledge, interpersonal communication and technical competencies.
The entrenchment of core competencies goes hand-in-hand with the development of competency framework solutions that are tailored to your organisation’s profile. Competency framework solutions are usually anchored on human resource analytical platforms for business planning, job evaluations, behavioural reviews, performance tracking and specialised HR software applications.
The adoption of competency framework solutions largely involves automating the data processing channels by enlisting the help of HR management applications such as Ability6. Many organisations lack actionable data for implementing operational and strategic competencies due to their failure to acknowledge the significance of embracing automated business intelligence solutions. Ability6 simplifies the process of designing and tracking competency frameworks.