Over 100 practitioners from different organizations are rewriting the rules of operational excellence.

1. Time2Change
The HUB of Operational Excellence
An initiative to build breakthrough competitiveness in Indian manufacturing organizations
by dramatically improving productivity at faster pace.
Increasingly, organizations realize that just trying to improve operations is not enough; rather
they must significantly speed up the process of improving operational performance. Prompted
by the need to cause the desired organizational changes faster, practitioners of operational
management from different industries have gathered at time2change.co.in. They are redefining
the rules of achieving sustainable growth in an ever more complex and rapidly changing
business environment.
The immediate outcome of this effort will be a co-created book about achieving breakthrough
performance, called 'Time2Change'. The book is India centric and will provide organizations
with the insights of achieving an order of magnitude of improvement in their performance,
without taking too much risk and without exhausting costly resources.
The initiative is not about picking up how to do's of various tools and techniques that are already a
part of continuous improvement programs. Rather, it is about making a leap in performance
levels by figuring out the way to build operational excellence in individual organizational
context. This is based upon the truth that no single tool or management technique can solve all
the problems of an organization all the time.
The initial draft of the book and the background work, has received high praise from leading
practitioners and implementers of operational excellence programs. In fact, insights from the
book are already being adopted within organizations by some of the early readers of the draft
content.
Certainly, Time2Change is about things much beyond the book. By knowing about the India
centric approach of operational excellence taken by the initiative, IIPE, the Indian Institution of
Production Engineers has associated with Time2Change in its quest for improving productivity
of Indian manufacturing organizations.
IIPE has now started rolling out seminar series on Building Manufacturing Competitiveness for
Indian Industries and has already kicked-off events with Time2Change. The seminar series was
launched in Bangalore on 20th Jun 2012 and will now be rolled out across other major cities.
These seminars and workshops will equip Indian manufacturing fraternity with the approach
created by the practitioners of operational excellence. Mastering of such an approach will
provide a big leap to the productivity levels in Indian factories quickly, without exhausting the
limited resources and without taking too much risk.
Based on one of the fundamental elements of Time2Change, IIPE has also launched a book
'Building Manufacturing Competitiveness- the TOC Way'. The book is authored by Dr. Shridhar
Lolla, who is leading the Time2Change initiative.
Currently, at time2change.co.in - the Hub of Operational Excellence, over 100 practitioners are
commenting, contributing, modifying and discussing various aspects of operational excellence.
It seems…the real co-creation is happening in India…online…at a time when it is most needed.
Very soon, the initiative will be seen in action on the ground… in the factories.
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