SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence, Program and Project Management, Leadership and Change Management, Supply Chain, Acquisitions and Integration
There is no shortage of advice on how to solve a problem. However, for anyone in a position of responsibility—from a CEO to a floor supervisor—the real challenge becomes which problem to solve first.
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence, Program and Project Management
Life is full of examples where people have confused confidence with competence. Too often in business and industry, the consequences can be long lasting.
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence, Program and Project Management
I am often asked to tour factories and provide opinions regarding the overall productivity and state of operations. Being a student of Lean principles and having a background in industrial engineering, I can quickly analyze and perform the detailed work to calculate answers.
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence, Leadership and Change Management, Acquisitions and Integration
As companies move forward with strategic planning, we often find disconnects between their goals, the actions or plans to achieve those goals, and the metrics used for tracking the performance of those actions.
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence, Leadership and Change Management, Acquisitions and Integration
When we hear the phrase “Customer-Supplier Relationship,” the first thing they tend to think about is external suppliers. We find that regardless of industry, many of our clients have poor relationships with external suppliers, yet this is just the tip of the iceberg.
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence, Leadership and Change Management
When we hear the phrase “Customer-Supplier Relationship,” the first thing they tend to think about is external suppliers. We find that regardless of industry, many of our clients have poor relationships with external suppliers, yet this is just the tip of the iceberg.
SOLUTION AREA: Operational Excellence
While we are living in difficult times, eventually we will return to full capability, and the number one question from our customers will be: “How fast can I get my deliveries?” Being able to ramp in a safe and quick manner has several dimensions to it, and not understanding those and their interactions can lead to instability.
SOLUTION AREA:Operational Excellence
As many of us already know, Lean is a term that depicts broad concepts within world class operations developed by Toyota following WWII. Over the past two decades, I’ve often heard leaders from different industries describe their successes by stating something along the lines of: We’ve Leaned out our factories. It’s a phrase that seems benign, yet it’s one of the most dangerous phrases a leader can use. Why? What’s wrong with this phrase?
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every facet of our lives, particularly, our work lives. Keeping operations “up and running” is a concern for almost every business across the country. The pandemic has forced most businesses to determine which roles can be done remotely and which need to be done on-site. For manufacturing businesses, this…
Within Competitive Business Solutions (CBS), we actively debate over the difference between “Change Leadership” and “Change Management”. This debate plays out in industry. In fact, I would go as far as to say that most executives practice Change Leadership but stop short of requiring or driving the necessary tactics of Change Management, thus leaving their…
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