SUMMARY (The 90 Day Schedule)

Having read the book, you can now ask me again: “How can I win the War on Waste in 90 Days?”

First of all, you sign up with me.[1]  Or do it on your own with a consulting phone support from me.  Or you just do it and if you get in trouble, call me.

It really is pretty easy to do.

I also have training manuals that you can buy to follow the program.

Calendar    Action to be Accomplished.

Day 1         Just get started on an 8 week program (4 days a week)
Class Day 1 - During these  first 16 workdays each team goes thru the War on Waste 6 steps.  It isn’t a lot of time but it is enough time.  It isn’t about being precise; it is totally about making your point.

Day 29       Presentations to management:
Class Day 17 (Note that the Calendar day is a running clock, while class day is only while an employee is in class)  - All participating employees make their presentations to the CEO or local managing director.

Just listen to the rest of the process and you will appreciate how direct and simple this whole process is.  Just focus.  Best, Len

[1] Len Bertain, Bertain Consulting Group, len@bertain.com, Cell: 510-520-8011.

The 7 things listed below are items that you need to do to make the War on Waste work successfully.

1. Begin the 6 Steps of the War on Waste! Of course, that is what this whole process is about.   Start it up and stand back.  This is really a fun process.
2. Use the tools of the War on Waste. Tools of the War on Waste were explained throughout the book. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 describe a number of tools that we use extensively as we deliver the War on Waste. 
3. Check in often with each team personally. Do this before they do their presentations. You need time to digest their suggestion and maybe even to think of things to make their project work better and more cost effectively.d
4. Push the teams. People who have done the War on Waste with my remote support have all said that they didn’t push the teams hard enough to get their projects ready for the presentation day. 
5. Integrate your Mission Statement. You want to follow the guide defined in the process. Each idea needs to be weighed against the Mission Statement. 
6. Integrate 5/67 tThinking into your daily routine. We absolutely believe that the 5/67 Rule is an important tool to be used in key management decisions. Understand what I wrote about it earlier and take it seriously. 
7. Set up the TKC. As I noted earlier, I don’t care what you call it but set up a center where ideas can be collected. The concepts that are described in Chapter 9 may help you set it up. Just do it. 

I hope you find this book of value, but I still have one more task to do, and that is to show you the time line of How You Win the War on Waste in 90 Days.

Have you ever done a company like ours?

This is one of the most interesting questions that I get asked.  The answer is pretty easy.  Probably not or if I did one like yours, it still wasn’t yours.  And that doesn’t matter a bit.

The War on Waste is about fixing a company’s processes.  It doesn’t make any difference what business you are in, the first question that we ask in the program is, “What do you do here to make money?”

That is what determines waste in the company.  If for instance you are a bank or finance company, this is not an easy answer.  Do you make it only when you take in savings of your customers and invest them?  Or are there other things that you do?  

So getting clear on this is the very first thing you do in the War on Waste.  Once you know how the company makes money, then the whole process flows from there.

Other questions: 

When can I ever do the War on Waste?

How much does it cost?

Of course there are a hundred questions that we get asked but the bottom line is the target of 50 to 1 for small companies and 100 to 1 for large companies worth it.  If we can do that all day long, the War on Waste is a good deal.