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How Much Have You Budgeted For Improvement In 2023?

How Much Have You Budgeted For Improvement In 2023?

How much have you budgeted for improvements in 2020? How do you expect to achieve the desired operating results? Many organizations cannot answer these important questions, nor do they have a formal process in place to mine, plan, and execute budgeted improvements to...

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It’s Time For A Lean and CI Reboot

It’s Time For A Lean and CI Reboot

Changing Lean from a noun to an adjective may have extended the brand, but it has also added many new levels of confusion, division, and diluted the purpose of the basic essentials of Lean and CI.     Lean and an entire universe of continuous improvement...

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The Future of Operations Due Diligence

The Future of Operations Due Diligence

A quick and inexpensive look at your organization's operating model in greater detail identifies new opportunities for improvement worth millions of dollars in EBITDA. What is the best way to improve M&A performance? Before we provide the answer, let’s step back...

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Transformation:  How To Implement Lighthouse Pilot Successes

Transformation: How To Implement Lighthouse Pilot Successes

In our last post, Improve Transformation Successes With Lighthouse Pilots, we underscored the facts about innovative transformation as holistic, highly complex initiatives that require innovation, an integrated operating strategy and vision, people, process,...

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Improve Transformation Successes With Lighthouse Pilots.

Improve Transformation Successes With Lighthouse Pilots.

Transformation is highly complex and requires an integrated operating strategy and vision, people, process, technology, capital, cultural development, and performance criteria. Every executive I meet with has concerns about the future. They all understand...

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Transformation-Scale Change Requires New Innovative Thinking.

Transformation-Scale Change Requires New Innovative Thinking.

Holistic and high impact change has become much more complex and requires a higher order, enterprise-wide, technology-enabled, and culturally grounded approach to strategic improvement.  Successful and sustainable transformation-scale change requires business model...

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Why Continuous Improvement Is Not Enough

Why Continuous Improvement Is Not Enough

CAUTION: This post is not a criticism of Lean, TPS, OpEx, and other CI initiatives, but a call to action for a higher order of strategic improvement - One that evolves a systematic architecture of leadership, sustaining infrastructure, digital technology integration,...

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A Guide To Successful Operating Model Transformation

A Guide To Successful Operating Model Transformation

Every executive I meet with has concerns about the future. They all understand conceptually, that business stability and remaining the same is not a viable option. They observe the Amazons, Home Depots, Walmarts, and other giants battling it out on the e-commerce...

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