Meetings / Opinions /Summarising / Facilitating
With ½ a side of text, this activity opens a Pandora’s box of things to talk about and activities to pursue. The activity works for B1 groups (who may want to pick up some vocabulary and discuss) and for more advanced participants who feel more comfortable dealing with quite complex issues.
Prior to introducing Fairem, outline the problem of capacity and brainstorm options, these might include:
- Overtime
- Taking on new staff
- An extra shift
- Hiring temporary staff from Manpower
- Speeding up machines
- Cutting production of non-profitable lines (lame dogs)
- Outsourcing current production (inc. off-shoring, low-cost countries etc.)
- Allowing production under license
- Outsourcing production
- Increased automation
- Buying in semi-finished components (reducing depth of production)
- Joint venture with a supplier / customer / competitor
- New factory
- Selling the pump patent (is Fairem specific, so won’t appear here)
