In the past if you were labeled a clock-watcher that typically came with a negative connotation and would lead to a career limiting activity. You would have been the one that was just waiting for it to be 5-O’clock somewhere and you were just counting the minutes for the day and week to be over. In today’s business that activity of watching the clock may not be that bad, that is if you are doing it for the right reasons.
Business today has become much more time sensitive. No longer is a customer satisfied with a delivery date that is based on fixed lead times, they want it much more accurate as they are dependent . . .
Avoid Lost Productivity: Finding A Better Strategy For Accessing Planning Data
As I look at all of the statistics on how employees can lose time and productivity at work (from Angry Birds to Email), it’s staggering. Minutes per day turn into days per quarter and then weeks per year . . . lost. According to an IDC report titled “The Knowledge Quotient”, 61% of knowledge workers regularly access four or more systems to get the information they need to do their jobs. Also, 36% of a typical knowledge worker's day is spent looking for and consolidating information spread across a variety of systems. And finally, it said that only 56% of the time workers can find the information required to do their jobs.
If you are a Material Planner and part of your job is to find Planning Data, those stats . . .