Over 32 million adults are functionally illiterate, they’re in your workforce and more are coming. Can your processes and management systems deal with this? They can when you use the Lean Management System! Lean Learning Model Standard Work, especially...
This is a five-part mystery: The mystery The call The investigation The solution The Happy Ending Part 3 – The Investigation During the phone conversation, Si told Mr. Under that he would love to work with him. But Si had a few conditions that Mr. Under had to...
This is a five-part mystery: The mystery The call The investigation The solution The Happy Ending Part 2 – The Call The meeting began first thing Monday morning. All of the business presidents and the heads of the critical business functions were there. Each...
This is a five-part mystery: The mystery The call The investigation The solution The Happy Ending It happened again. Mr. F.O. Under, the CEO, was beside himself. Business results for the year had just come in. All of the forecasts from the leaders of his...
Consumer goods product manufacturer and distributor Primary channels: Regional and national brick and mortar stores Secondary channel: On-line Year 1 Year 2 (YOY) Year 3 (YOY) Sales % 100% -2% -14% EBITDA % 100% +31% -161% Year 1 Outsource high labor cost...
If you have cash and credit facilities, here’s what you’ll need to do (if you don’t have adequate credit facilities, you’ll still need to do the same thing unless you’ve decided to liquidate). This is a process that will take a sustained effort and it’s scalable. Set...
