Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 3:11PM Really? Wal-Mart stumbling? This is exactly what was reported in the May 16, 2014 Wall Street Journal. The lead story in the Marketplace section was: Wal-Mart Takes Another Hit on Sales Fifth Quarterly Decline in a Row Comes With Forecast of Further Weakness
Sunday, April 13, 2014 at 8:33PM This is a follow-up to our State of the Supply Chain Union blog from late February. In this blog, we talked about three interrelated issues that American companies are facing these days. Too much work and too few people. [1] Loss of process and process improvement focus. [2] Not understanding and fully communicating the capabilities of the supply chain. [3] We continue to hear evidence and examples of these issues preventing companies from achieving their full potential.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 11:09PM There is indeed a Quality improvement dilemma in many organizations. This dilemma is faced by organizations that need Quality improvement the most. It is simply stated: We need to improve, but there is no time. We are too busy fighting fires. You have heard it hundreds of times. You may have uttered this very statement hundreds of times. It is both true and false.
Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 11:59PM We have written on the problem of senior executives and entire management teams ignoring problems in their businesses. We have tried to make sense of this problem with a variety of theories which, admittedly, none of which seem to resonate or strike us as compelling. This phenomenon for sure exists. We have simply not been able to explain easily it or put pithy nomenclature around it.
Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 7:37PM I received a call this week from an old friend and fellow consultant. He lives and works in Mexico. He called to catch-up a but also to ask a specific question. He had a client who was had installed an ERP system. They were concerned they were not getting the full value out of this system and wondered what to do.
