Improving Productivity through Quality and Cost Reduction Training
Future Connect Group provides training in " Improving Productivity through Quality and Cost Reduction Training " on various locations in London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Dammam, Jeddah, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Rome, and Islamabad.

Objectives
- Identify ways and means to improve organizational and/or departmental productivity in order to increase profits and/or
- decrease/eliminate costs or losses.
- Apply several cost reduction strategies in order to meet changing global, statutory and market conditions.
- Identify business processes in need for
- reevaluating and/or reengineering.
- Recognize and apply quality improvement techniques in order to improve productivity.
Content
Productivity Defined
- Definitions
- Process-Based View
- Productivity Limitations
- The MUDA Factor
- Eight Types of Waste
- Cost of Poor Quality
Principles of Cost Reduction:
The Quality Approach
- Quality Defined
- Avoiding Wastage and Adding Value to the Customer
- (Cost Reduction Strategies)
- Cornerstones of Quality
- Setting Up a Cost Reduction Program
- Cost Savings Project Selection Roadmap
- Barriers to Cost Reduction Programs
- The Resistance Psychology in Humans
- The Role of Suggestion Schemes
Productivity Improvement Tools
- Tool Selection
- Brainstorming
- Pareto
- How-How Method
- Why-Why Method
- Ishikawa Fish-Bone Diagram
- Six Sigma
- Lean Principles
- Non-Value Added Analysis
- Reengineering
- The Focus Method
Cost Reduction Opportunities
- Streamlining the Organization
- The “ESSA” Method
- Savings in Material Costs
- Reducing the Costs of Services
- 140 Ideas to Cut Costs
Measuring your Productivity Initiatives
- Key Performance Indicators
- Setting Targets for Cost Reduction
- Benchmarking
- Types of Benchmarking
- The Balanced Scorecard
- The Dashboard
Future Connect Training Institute is a part of Future Connect Group. We provide intensive practical training in various subjects and jobs specific areas. The training courses are held around the year at various locations like London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Dammam, Jeddah, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Rome, and Islamabad.