Practice

Nearly all manufacturing business leaders will state that one of their primary goals is to ship products to customers on time.  However, in my experience the…

Most diversified industrial manufacturing businesses desire to be “Lean” in order to improve on-time performance, reduce cost and speed time-to-market.  Lean Manufacturing refers to the Toyota Production…

In the world of manufacturing, we often search for “game-changers” – new products, capabilities, customers, talent that can propel the business forward.  Conversely, we…

DMAIC is an acronym for “Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control.”  It is a structured problem solving method, part of the Six Sigma method developed at…

Focus on wildly important goals only, measure the things that lead you to your goals, keep a simple, timely scoreboard, and get together often…

Make your goals specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. See:  http://www.techrepublic.com/article/use-smart-goals-to-launch-management-by-objectives-plan/          

The change agent is always challenging the status quo, and encountering opposition.  If a constituent says, “This won’t work,” or “We’ve tried this before…

Two attempts, Two Media, Two Days – Then Escalate If you encounter a problem, and you are on good terms with the person who…