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How consultants can help clients fail fast – to succeed quickly

Chartered Management Institute

The fast-paced and innovative nature of the tech sector necessitates rapid experimentation and adaptation. Article Our extensive range of articles are designed to keep you in the loop with all the latest management and leadership best practice, research and news. Want to learn more about the fail fast principle and how it can help you?

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3 Tools for Streamlining Processes in Manufacturing

Strategy Driven

Manufacturing processes are complex and they often consist of multiple steps. So, in order to maximize profits, businesses have to find innovative ways to streamline these processes and reduce the time they take to complete. In order for manufacturing companies to be successful, they need to take good care of their customers.

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The Difference is the Point of Interaction

Mike Cardus

Every employee is entitled to have a competent manager with the capability to bring value to their problem solving and decision making. The image on the right reflects the ‘ Cascade-of-Planning ’ model or in Lean Manufacturing the Hoshin Kanri used in the Toyota Production System. Contact Mike make your team and leaders better.

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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

The BoP markets are a hotbed for innovation and companies that are able to mold their business models to fit within this paradigm can truly alter traditional business models. Prahalad , the brilliant management guru. Innovation Sandbox” was the term coined by C.K. Many companies have derived BoP strategies from C.K.

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Using Big Data To Map Supply Chains

The Horizons Tracker

That these global supply chains manage to underpin lean manufacturing systems where seconds count is one of the more amazing feats of modern life. The process of leaving the European Union has perhaps shed fresh light on the inherent complexities of supply chains that increasingly span the globe.

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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business Review

Even today, when we extol the virtues of creativity and innovation, we still see bureaucratic job titles, inflexible roles, and standardized evaluation systems that generate anxiety instead of excitement and self-expression. Another account manager spent two days in a hospital to understand what it would really mean to become paperless.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net.

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