Faire monter les compétences pour transformer l'entreprise en DDAE : Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise
The Missing Links is a management book written as a detective novel. Readers follow a small furniture company whose owner has died under suspicious circumstances, leaving his musician daughter in charge. Héloïse, the new CEO encounters a multitude of problems–high work-in-progress inventory, unsafe working conditions, conflicts between two in-house factions, longstanding customers beginning to withdraw their business, and increased competition.
Can this factory ever be profitable again? Will the shareholder sell the company to recover the ROI? How are the employees going to behave if they want to keep their jobs? Will Héloïse manage to conduct the changes in order to transform the business into a learning and adaptive enterprise?
Readers follow the journey of the company to utilize industry standards, including total quality, lean, total productive maintenance, flow management, as well as the newest demand driven methodologies that are changing modern supply chain management. “Clues” dispersed throughout the manuscript point readers in the direction of this website where 33 appendices of additional information are available in 3 sections: People, Tools & Methods & Processes, Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise. These 2 pages appendices are written by international experts who can be contacted for additional information or services.
The Missing Links is the study book for the newest Demand Driven Institute course: Adaptive Enterprise Foundations.
Published in 2016 by Industrial Press USA, the technical parts of this version in English have been entirely rewritten to illustrate an implementation of the Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise DDAE model strating with a DDMRP pilote. It also introduces the Demand Driven Skill Model DDSM using the Skill buffers.
The novel is the official resource used as a business case in the training Adaptive Enterprise Foundations AEF of the Demand Driven Institute DDI.
The technical sheets are available on this web site as well as the more advanced descriptions of the DDSM published in the appendixes of the following two books by Carol PTAK and Chad SMITH:
The Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise (Industrial Press 2018) and Adaptive Sales and Operations Planning (Demand Driven Press 2022).
