A nincompoop is someone who is grossly inept. They can be categorized as five-figures, six-figures … up to ten-figures or more depending upon how much they cost the organization in a year, or over their career. Ironically, Nincompoops have an uncanny way of surviving by flying below the radar, shifting blame or somehow gaining tenure. …
In a global marketplace, companies have a primal motivation for continually improving the value-proposition of their offering. They have to outpace the competition and offer more and more, for less and less, otherwise risk losing the customer. To meet these demands of the customer requires that companies constantly seek to increase the velocity of throughput…
Many complex manufacturing businesses have come to understand that operational excellence is an on-going process in which companies strive to produce better results. It has an inherent collaborative nature and typically includes participation from all parts of the organization. But the challenge in manufacturing today is that the metrics upon which the business silos of…
It can be difficult to succeed in implementing Lean transformation and improve a company’s metrics over 10 percent. Particularly when managerial behaviours don’t follow this transformation. In fact, in a Lean environment, managerial behaviours and the company’s culture have to change in order to sustain results. Especially supervisors & team Leaders. Below is a list…
As the sun traverses the heavens ever higher with each and every day, winter has finally been forced to release us from its frigid embrace. With every passing day, the mud gives way to green grass, the trees burst with the youthfulness of light green leaves, fruit trees are in full blossom and abuzz with…
