Resource Flexibility

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Flexibility means an ability by persons, machines and organisations to adapt to changed conditions for the business:

- Analysing resources

- Adapt to variations in the resource needs

- Awareness of flexibility demands

1.Understand Demand Variability

2.Cross-Train Teams

3. Implement Agile Resource Planning

4.Build a Flexible Workforce

5.Create Modular Processes and Tools

6.Encourage an Adaptability Culture

7.Monitor and Reassess

The target is to use all your resources in the most efficient way.

Flexibility has the later years been in fashion, put on a pedestal – something holy

I want to point out that experts are needed for efficiency – the problem is that there are not unlimited amount of experts

Flexibility is good but if everyone does everything, no-one does it well and there will be less work satisfaction by the coworkers. The risk is that the whole organisation will be miserable.

When analysing the efficiency, the set time when changing tasks is waste. Working time without outcome e.g.:

- Preparing the working place for the new task

- The use of someone in a different roll takes education and causes stress

- It could influence the motivation of the workforce

When using flexibility make sure to be convinced that the benefits are bigger than the disadvantages

Are there things that can be done to limit the negative sides of flexibility ?

Talk with your team in advance to prepare them for the possibility of using flexability
Educate in advance to make them prepared
Promote the ones open to flexibility
- Try to understand that the ones not open to flexibility, feel that way.
- Can anything be done to change their minds