Expedited production orders are another example of change during the performance of the production operation. Increasing process and equipment complexity along with increasing productivity has put a spotlight on the issue of process and equipment failure recovery. Perhaps a more crippling recovery issue, however, is the nightmare of computer virus. Ask yourself how much of your company's competitive position is defined in that list. And ask how proficient your company is at each of these challenges.
Agility is today's priority.
This column has built a foundation in four monthly installments that will now let us explore the construction of change-proficiency. We will talk next about utilizing reusable resources in a reconfigurable , scaleable framework to achieve Agility.