Question: Mr. Khaled is the Continuous Improvement Manager at a local bank in Sharjah. He has been hired to improve the flow of operations behind the
Mr. Khaled is the Continuous Improvement Manager at a local bank in Sharjah. He has been hired to improve the flow of operations behind the front line. In particular, what usually seems to the customer as a simple transaction, it is behind the front line where transactions that are processed are critical to delivering the customer experience but are often unseen by customers.
Mr. Khaled had attributed a major issue in the operations to the recently adopted computerized accounts system, that is used from 8 am to 12 pm, daily. The tasks in the Table below describe the current steps to process a customer account.
Tasks Time (Min) Predecessors
A. System's Initialization 2 --
B. Manual System Testing 3 A
C. Receiving customer's portfolio 5 A
D. Computerpersonnel Interface 8 A
E. Generating three difference financial scenarios 15 B,C
F. Selecting most suitable scenario 20 D,E
G. Running feasibility Study 12 E
H. Finalizing the report and account statement 18 F,G
I. Submitting report to Manager 10 G,H
J. System's Reset 5 I
c) In order to be able to process even more accounts, Senior Management approved to increase the team size to 5 members. Help Mr. Khaled design a system that will process the maximum number of accounts with 5 employees. What is the efficiency of the new system?
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