I've been teaching people about how to eliminate wasted  time from their business processes
for a number of years now.

Most people pick up the key concepts of getting "Lean" fairly quickly - although it takes time
for some to actually turn knowledge into reality! -you know who you are! 

The idea of doing things just in time, creating pull, creating flow and having a place
for everything and everything in it's place - all good stuff . 

But when I get to the takt time slide on my Kaizen Training Courses. 

You can see the brains going into hibernation mode - a bit like your laptop does when you
least expect it - the bodies are still sitting there - they are still warm, but not much else is
going on in their old central nervous system. 

At this stage of reading you can either press on or decide to come back to this later
or not at all.

...It is your choice entirely! 

For those of you who have stayed - well done - You are the type of individuals that we
need to keep things moving along. 

Let us destroy the Takt Time demon forever! 

By the end of this next short section, if you haven't got to grips with the concept of
takt time...well then.... you’re just not trying!

No, sorry if you haven't understood takt time after the following explanation, in my opinion
you are just being a bit lazy today.  

So what is Takt Time all about and why is it relevant?

... Especially in a city centre office like many of us work in each day. 

It is not the time of day that we are suddenly nice to each other!  

Takt is a German word which translates to the “beat rate of an orchestra".

Let's imagine for a moment that you get application forms from your customers every day. 

Let’s keep it simple - say we get 100 applications on average each day. 

If we were to process the 100 applications one at time and we have 7 hours available each
day how often would we need to be processing an application? 

It is the time we have available, (7 hours=420 minutes) divided by 100 isn't it! 

420 minutes/100= 4 minutes 12 seconds per application. 

Have you disappeared for a cup of coffee yet!