Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 9:17AM There is an article worth reading in the August 2013 issue of CFO. The article by Gary C. Smith is titled: Nine Inventory Management Mistakes — and One Easy Solution. The Nine Mistakes listed by the author are as follows:
Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 5:53PM The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary defines the term One-Trick Pony as "one that is skilled in only one area; also one that has success only once." In this posting we are concerned with leaders that are One-Trick Ponies in that they are only skilled in one area.
Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 9:57PM Brainstorming is a technique that should be in the toolbox of any team based activity in business. It can be a critical part of both the innovation and problem solving process.
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.
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 4:50AM The world is abound with management theories and methods. All one need do is peruse the business aisles of either a brick and mortar or virtual bookstore. Methods, theories, applications, approaches, and systems come and go. Let’s just call them theories for lack of a better term. Management Theories come into and out of favor. Older passe theories may be re-tuned, retreaded, and recycled with a spin nomenclature and nuance to make them seem new and fresh for today. How many ways can management by objectives be recast? How many times has business process engineering or re-engineering been presented? There are countless numbers of new product development processes out there and probably more to come. New theories are promoted as new or revolutionary while structurally and thus essentially they are are equivalent to one or more of their predecessors.
