Improving Productivity through Quality Enhancement and Cost Reduction

Why Attend

How do organizations improve productivity? What is productivity to start with? This course presents best practices on how to boost productivity by focusing on quality and cost saving initiatives. In this course we will share best practices and tools from organizations that implemented quality methodologies to improve their processes and achieve faster cycle times, lesser defects and simplified operations. Participants will also learn how to apply these practices in their organizations and understand how to manage change. They will master the skills to leverage the existing culture to their advantage by creating a solid platform and moving the organization into a new mindset. This course is critical for every organization aiming to save cost and become more efficient and productive.

Overview

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

Course Methodology

This course relies on the use of exercises and workshops to engage participants and help them learn new concepts and practices. Group and plenary discussions will be used and participants will be required to debate and present their findings. In addition, videos with different case studies will be presented.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Define productivity and various types of organizational waste
Identify areas of poor productivity due to poor quality and suggest ways to increase effectiveness and efficiency
Justify and apply quality improvement tools and techniques in order to improve productivity
Apply several cost reduction strategies in order to meet changing global, statutory and market conditions

Target Audience

Managers, supervisors and all those who are responsible for, or indirectly involved in, a cost or profit center or a quality improvement function.

Target Competencies

Problem solving
Change management
Applying quality
Understanding cost reduction
Applying Lean
Understanding Six Sigma

Productivity defined

Research on productivity
Definitions
Causes for poor productivity
Approaches: productivity improvement
Improving productivity through

Staff
Quality
Cost reduction

Productivity factor
Improving staff productivity at workplace: tips

Performance and productivity
Barriers to cost reduction programs
Sleep and its impact on productivity
The Connection between power napping and productivity

Getting commitment to a cost cutting program
Setting up a cost reduction program
Resistance psychology in humans
Employee Engagement Techniques
The role of suggestion schemes
Six tips to unleash your productivity from Robin Sharma

Principles of cost reduction: the quality approach

Quality defined
Cornerstones of quality
Cost of poor quality and productivity
The 'Muda' factor
Value added analysis
Pillars of Lean
Lean principles
Eight types of waste
Lean implementation barriers

Productivity improvement tools and Methodologies

Productivity improvement project road map
Tool selection
Brainstorming
Pareto
Why-why method
How-how method
Ishikawa fish-bone diagram
Six Sigma Methodology
Re-engineering
The 5 S program
The 'Focus' methodology

Cost reduction opportunities

Cutting cost strategically: tips from the experts
Streamlining the organization and the ESSA method
SMART practices for increasing productivity
Cost savings opportunities
Industry 4.0 and cost optimization
One hundred and forty ideas to cut costs

Measuring your productivity initiatives

Key performance indicators
Types of measures
Setting targets for cost reduction
Benchmarking
Types of benchmarking
The balanced scorecard
The dashboard

Istanbul

Istanbul (Turkey)2025-11-10$5475

Barcelona

Barcelona (Spain)2026-06-15$5475