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The Budget is truly the Fuel for Growth When you view most budgets they are almost always cost-related with little identification for resources that clearly set aside for growth. How do companies stop being innovative? Why do companies stop growing? Many simply stop planning and budgeting for it. The budget is truly the fuel for Read More …
Many people see Lean as another process methodology still mired down in the process thinking world of the eighties and nineties. The facts are that companies, such as Danaher, Toyota, Ingersoll Rand and Amazon have embraced Lean thinking or similar concepts and have excelled in the new millennium. What makes these companies stand out? They Read More …
If you are successful at implementing Lean, it is simply not Lean. It’s yours. I first studied TQM back in nineteen-eighties which served as my precursor for Lean. Along the way, I was primarily influenced by Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking. I always found my roots and practices best associated with Lean. Read More …
The first step in the 5 Cs of Driving Market Share is identifying specific products or markets that offer the organization its best options for growth. You will learn how to evaluate products and markets using metrics such as current market share, market growth rate and competitive intensity to assess the best targets for the Read More …
Organizations need to change from a customer satisfaction focus to a customer value focus. The Five C’s of Driving Market Share serves as the template for this transaction. Turning the power of Six Sigma outward and focusing on growing market share will provide infinite number of value laden projects for the Six Sigma Black belts Read More …
In next weeks ASQ Charlotte Section Annual Conference 2013, Quality Conference of the Carolinas, one of the facilitators in our Strength-Based Organizational Change track is Barbara Ivey. She will facilitate the breakouts on Personal Kanban and Cross-Generational Collaboration. Personal Kanban is a process popularized by the book, Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life co-authored Read More …