[M.D. Holloway]

I've had an idea festering in my skull for awhile now. I even posted it on the board to see if it would get any traction…it actually did. Its an idea for a show. A documentary actually. You have seen the shows where they make over a restaurant or a bar in a week and they turn it around? All so very entertaining and melodramatic and what not. The hosts are smart but rude and there are always tears and fights…bla bla bla. Well, I want to do the same thing with factories. Save the drama for ya Momma though.

Here is how it would play out in my mind.

1) Source out some candidate companies - need owner buy-in. They have to be struggling. Doesn't matter why - just that they are.
2) Go under cover for a few weeks - maybe a few of us. Note all the crap occurring.
3) Analyze the situation
4) Review with Owners their goals - prolly to turn a profit and stay in business but what ever
5) Develop action - have to tie in the folks that we worked with for a few weeks and let them in on it - heck by this time the whole company should know.
6) Begin the turn around process of bringing to light the failure modes associated with man, methods, materials, machines
7) begin corrective actions
8) Track and report
9) Improve
10) Profit

I can do this in any company with a team of about 5 folks - some I already have others I can get.

Turn the process into a documentary. Take the findings and publish them in my volume I have due on Operational Excellence and Failure Prevention. Develop a seminar series and then a consulting group around the work and what I learned and will continue to learn. Also falls in line with the degree program I am developing as well - it all fits together!!!

It means I will most likely leave my job for awhile - maybe a year or two or longer. I will have to secure income from loans, grants, investors and the like. It will be fun and I will learn a bunch as well as maybe help some companies out.

So, what do you think?