Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 10:49PM There are a lot of great examples, anecdotes, quotes, and adages we used every day to educate or make a point when we are consulting or teaching teams about business in general or continuous improvement specifically. Some of our favorites include:
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.
Friday, April 4, 2014 at 9:46PM I had the opportunity this past week to have coffee with Paul Zaleski. Paul's a Director at Cost Reduction Analysts: http://expensereduction.com/analyst/paul-zaleski. He is a very qualified and experience business leader whose current focus is helping small to mid-sized companies determine savings opportunities in both MRO and non-direct expenditures. Companies of any size can easily be spending too much if they are not focused, on constantly assessing the market and looking for opportunities. Smaller companies have less human resources and thus are not doing this assessment and subsequent sourcing work to ensure they are getting the best pricing, service, and quality they can. They are probably leaving a lot of money on the table.
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.
