What is a commitment system?
A commitment system helps people from multiple departments work together as a team by providing a single view of what’s planned for everyone on site, every day.
Drawing each team’s work into a frontline planning system makes it easy for people to make commitments to each other in a visible and transparent way, and to see when these commitments have been met.
Why use a commitment system?
Operations that use commitment systems benefit because teams are able to trust in a comprehensive plan. Commitment systems:
- enhance production
- reduce costs
- improve workplace safety
- deliver world-class financial results.
How can a commitment system be implemented?
Many operations currently use a management operating system (MOS) made up of spreadsheets, whiteboards and paper tools. They seldom include more than one source of work and usually require high levels of manual input.
It’s possible to take your current MOS and turn it into an effective commitment management system. In most cases, the missing link is a visual software tool that helps people:
- make reasonable commitments to each other
- communicate commitments visibly across the site
- see when commitments are fulfilled.
