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Tag Archives: lean
Design doing
Steve Blank is one of the real thinkers in the innovation space who gets out there into the weeds and gets stuff done. The illustration at the top of this post is one from a recent post on his blog … Continue reading
Posted in Customers, Innovation
Tagged Change, change management, communication, competitive strategy, customer, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Leadership, lean, Marketing, Strategy
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Another bloody meeting
Meetings are supposed to be a place where work gets done, accountabilities exercised options articulated and examined, decisions made, and outcomes reported. However, often they become just a reason to have another meeting. Whilst the public sector comes in … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Leadership, Management
Tagged communication, Governance, lean, Management, performance assessment
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Thinking “Lean” is instinctive.
It is amazing how people adopt to “lean” instinctively, without any planning, or knowledge of the cliches and tools spruiked by consultants (including myself). People are pretty sensible when left to themselves, they do not build waste into a … Continue reading
Posted in Customers, Lean, Operations, Sales
Tagged collaboration, communication, customer, demand chain, lean, Operations, performance assessment
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5 why’s of social media
“5 why’s” is a tool that started life in the Lean Thinking toolbox, but in reality is simply common sense. In effect, make sure you understand the real cause of the problem facing you before you start deploying solutions, otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Customers, Lean, Marketing, Small business, Social Media
Tagged Branding, communication, competitive strategy, lean, SME, Social Media, Strategy
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Crying for a Lean agricultural demand chain
Lean thinking, evolving from the Toyota Production System is changing manufacturing world, but agriculture has a long way to go. Just as building cars used to be a production oriented operation until Toyota turned it on its head, so too … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Change, Demand chains, Marketing
Tagged Branding, category management, Change, change management, communication, competitive strategy, lean, Marketing, Strategy, value
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Lean accounting. An SME manufacturing lifeline?
Manufacturing SME’s in this country (Australia) are under severe pressure, particularly in heavily trade exposed industries like food manufacturing. Yesterday, Windsor Farms was put into administration, a month ago, Rosella went the same way and is currently being liquidated in … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Lean, Management, Small business
Tagged Change, change management, competitive strategy, Governance, great management, lean, Management, performance assessment, SME
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Failing is not the same as failure.
It is often said that for successful innovation to occur, you must be prepared to” fail often, fail cheap”. Early testing and prototyping speeds up innovation cycle times, the longer a project proceeds with issues unnoticed or unfixed, the harder … Continue reading
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Tagged category management, lean, Operations
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Productivity increase = Wealth creation
The maths are simple, do more with less, and you have more left over at the end. Productivity is not just something you aim for in the factory, the opportunities to do more with less are everywhere, in every activity … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, change management, Governance, lean, Operations, performance assessment
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Seeing the real cause
How often do we get sidetracked by several possible causes of an adverse or unexpected outcome? In the course of doing a fair bit of process improvement work over the years, one of the really successful strategies I have used … Continue reading
Posted in Lean, Operations, Small business
Tagged change management, lean, Management, Operations, performance assessment, supply chain
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An Apple supply chain pivot?
Tim Cook, the Apple CEO has just come out and announced that Apple will restart manufacturing in the US, starting with an unnamed Mac computer model, some time in the near future. The driver of “offshoring” to sources of cheap … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Change, Lean, Operations
Tagged Branding, change management, lean, Operations, performance assessment, Strategy, web stuff
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Rule of 3
There are three types of activity in any business, from the small one man service operators to BHP. Doing all the things that generate revenue, today, tomorrow, and into the future, Doing the necessary things that support the generation of … Continue reading
Value adding ratio
Have you ever calculated yours? It is a pretty simple performance measure that carries a lot of weight, and contains the seeds of success, and destruction. In addition, if you know your industry well, it is pretty easily calculated for … Continue reading
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Tagged lean, Management, Operations, performance assessment
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Lead recycling
“Not now” is a response sales people receive all the time, question is, does it mean not now, or not ever? When sales people hear the words, they have two choices: Ignore the brush off, and keep at it Asses … Continue reading
“You get what you measure”.
It has always been so. The father of the modern manufacturing revolution, W. Edwards Deeming probably said it first in a management setting, that led to lean, the TPS, 6 sigma, and a host of management articles, cliches, and learned … Continue reading
Posted in Lean, Management, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged analytics, communication, lean, Management, performance assessment, Social Media
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7 steps to Data Literacy.
Anyone who can read can read a Keats sonnet, but not everyone can “see” the lyrical quality, and feel the passionate introspection most have at their core. Those who can are truly literate in English poetry. Data Literacy, a term … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Marketing, Small business, Strategy
Tagged analytics, demand chain, Innovation, lean, managing yourself, Marketing
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2 parameters, 5 measures of great process
Robust, repeatable, and easily taught processes are the foundation of good outcomes. It therefore makes sense to consider the factors that separate good processes from poor ones, the effective from the ineffective. The measure of the process has two parameters: … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Lean, Management, OE, Operations
Tagged analytics, Change, change management, lean, Operations, performance assessment
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FMCG business model disrupted.
Out with the old mass market advertising and business model, and in with the new. I shave, it costs a fortune, so much that I switched to disposable shavers without all the fatuous claims and high prices of the big … Continue reading
Operational design paradox.
It seems paradoxical to me that the most successful company on the face of the earth over the last decade, one that has been successful because of their astonishingly good product design, have not leveraged that innovative capacity into their … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management, Operations
Tagged category management, Innovation, lean, Management, Operations
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Management crash diet.
Most of us know that if we set out to lose weight, a crash diet usually just works in the short term, what we really need is a change in lifestyle, or at least, some aspects of our lifestyle. Obvious. … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management, Operations
Tagged Change, change management, lean, Management, performance assessment, Strategy
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Best management tool ever
The best management tool available is amongst the cheapest, a pair of shoes. Hierarchies are vertical, they filter and modify information as it goes up and down an organisation, but real things, those that customers pay for, get done in … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, Operations
Tagged communication, Leadership, lean, Management, managing yourself, Operations, performance assessment, Personal Rant, value
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