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To consistently drive top-line growth, leaders must commit to a disciplined and creative focus on meeting today’s market challenges while strengthening capabilities for future competitive mastery. It’s a matter of keeping the core business running optimally without losing sight of what’s on the horizon—and being prepared for and open to “creative destruction.”
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What’s the center stage of lean management?
The “gemba” is, of course. That’s the “real place” where work is happening, where value is being created. That’s the focal point of improvement, of lean thinking and action.
Last month saw another round of graduates from our Lean Manager for Services Certification held on the campus of The Ohio State University. Instructor and Executive Partner of Productivity Inc., Catherine Converset, spent a few minutes with us recently to talk about implementing lean in service and administrative functions.
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TPM’s integral role, with 5 takeaways to guide your strategy.
Most business owners and general managers recognize just how critically important proper equipment maintenance is, particularly in an asset-oriented work environment.
The term “hacking” usually brings to mind the activities of rogue computer programmers with bad intentions working to breach the security of a network. In that context, a “hackathon” might sound like a race to see who can be best and fastest intruder.
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In 1976 the movie Network was in theaters. There is a famous scene in the film where the lead character, Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) implores Americans to shout out their windows “I’m as mad as hell, and I am not going to take this anymore.”
Read moreThe Samlesbury brewery, now owned by Interbrew, has used its Asset Care programme as a key tool for pursuing cost reduction through more intensive use of plant
Read moreThe annals of 2012 include the stories of two notable turnarounds in Japanese companies…
Read moreAlthough middle market companies – those with revenues between $10 million and $1 billion – make up only about 3% of American businesses, this segment is a huge economic force, accounting for roughly a third of the U.S. GDP and more than 43 million jobs. That's according to the National Center for the Middle Market.*
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We often hear from clients that one of the challenges they run into in applying Lean methodologies to daily work isn’t necessarily applying various tools and techniques, it’s how to address the inevitable problems that arise along the way.
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You want to transform your company into a lean enterprise, but you don't have top management support. What do you do?
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We recently wrapped up another Maintenance Miracle Autonomous Maintenance Kaizen Event, this one hosted by Komatsu Mining Corporation Afterwards, we chatted with Ellis New, the event instructor, about OEE and the AM session’s impact on the participants.
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