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Can productivity and innovation be compatible co-workers?
“Improve productivity” is one of the oldest goals in manufacturing. We’re told with higher levels of productivity come lower unit costs and all will be good. Market share improves, jobs are secured and...
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Human Resources: We need your help to optimize the labor supply chain.
As the topic of finding skilled workers to work at manufacturers continues around the world, leave it to China to push a solution forward. China’s Ministry of Education has announced the cancellation...
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Variance reports apply to Timekeeping and Payroll too
As I introduced in my book Lean Labor, the Perfect Paycheck is a concept borrowed from the manufacturing term “Perfect Order”. A Perfect Paycheck one that is accurate, delivered on time, and at the...
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Hitting the Continuous Improvement wall
Ask a manufacturing engineer or production supervisor how long they have been under pressure to reduce costs and improving productivity and they’ll most likely say since they started working....
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Why Lean Fails
Lean desperately needs a political advisor. Political campaigns are difficult because the candidate must become the person that provides a vision for a wide range of issues to a broad base of...
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You’ve been commoditized, now what?
Commoditization of a product is a natural evolution of the market and is not the worst case scenario. If you are responsible for a commodity product, that means there is still a viable market for what...
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Competitive Manufacturing in the UK
I was in the UK last week and had an opportunity to participate in a production tour of a local manufacturer. This company produces consumer goods for yard care and is a great example of a manufacturer...
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Turning the soft term “employee engagement” into hard operational results
Last week I was in London where I participated in Works Management’s “The Great Productivity Debate” which was hosted by WM editor Max Gosney. Max began the event with some statistics from the Office...
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Government employees are making good labor decisions, they just don’t see the...
I was pleasantly surprised during my time at the Governing Leadership conference in Maryland held last week. First was the energy and diligence expended by the elected and appointed officials in...
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Lean Workforce in Hospitals
I’ve been a big fan of Mark Graban’s for years, but only just had the opportunity to work with him. About 2 weeks ago we delivered a webinar focused on Lean in hospitals. If you haven’t heard of Mark,...
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