Five Rules for Selecting the Best Key Performance Indicators
There’s no question that key performance indicators (KPIs) are needed to help drive operational improvements. KPIs are absolutely essential for organizations ...
Don’t Get Too Comfortable Being Number One if You Want to Stay There – Part 2
In part one of this series, I focused on hard lessons learned by Kodak, who had the technology and capability ...
Define Purpose by Addressing Customer Needs with Lean Learning Center
At the root of lean principles is the ability to define and provide the exact needs of the customer. Lean ...
Who Leads 90% of the People in your Company Every Day?
Frontline managers see everyone in your company every day. If your frontline team spends more than 60 minutes of their ...
Intuition is Useful in Business
A leisure activity for all of us, but also a source of research and study, business periodicals help keep us ...
Red straw trap: Success sticks you to the past
Red straw trap: Success sticks you to the past Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press June 18, 2016 In 1953, three ...
Retention in the Workplace
During a recent manufacturing forum one of the most consistent problems we heard about from companies of every size was ...
America Isn’t a Competitive Threat
I hope this got your attention because it certainly got mine as I recently listened to Dennis Pawley, former Executive ...