Applying Lean Thinking to the Food Industry

Preston Blevins career spans over forty-five years with two related careers. The first as a manufacturing operations and supply-chain practitioner, and the second in the ERP/supply-chain software industry. Blevins has authored more than fifty conference white papers and magazine articles. Topics covered in these publications include Advanced Master Scheduling (and S&OP), complex manufacturing (ET0), service Read More …

Lean Implementation: Use the Language of Industry

“Until these guys actually did it hands-on, it just didn’t register with them.” – Scott Sedam Scott Sedam is President of TrueNorth Development and Todd Hallett, AIA, President of TK Design & Associates, Inc. are my guest this week on the Business901 podcast. These guys are at the forefront of Lean in the Homebuilding sector. Read More …

Training within Industry (TWI) old hat

Jim Huntzinger has over twenty years experience developing lean enterprises through system design and development, implementation, and guiding organizations both strategically and tactically through the transformation process. Currently he is the president and founder of the Lean Accounting Summit, TWI Summit, and Lean and Green Summit. The podcast is a good introduction to TWI and Read More …

Real industry data for your marketing plan

A simple add on feature to Marketing Plan Pro that is available to you: Improve your marketing plan with five years of financial statements, key business ratios, and more data for your industry and locality It’s a question we hear all the time. Where can I find the market research data that I need to Read More …

Blogging for Industry

On the Bulldog Reporter PR Management Roundtable webinar that BNT hosted last week on business blogging, Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems summed up the case for business blogging this way: “If you’re not participating, you’re putting your company at risk.” Different ways to use a Blog? Allows you to communicate with your customers? You can Read More …