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ChatGPT and Manufacturing

Feb 1, 2023

Manufacturing has played a major role over time in advancing automation, computerization, digitization, and more. Our industries are amazingly different now than they were 15 …

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Becoming Resilient

Jan 25, 2023

There are business buzzwords, and then there are important business concepts you cannot afford to ignore. Resilience is one of the latter. Resilience emanates from …

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Please Stop Building Inventory!

Jan 18, 2023

It was not that long ago that most manufacturers and distributors carried entirely too much inventory. The drag on cash flow was never offset by …

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Building Your Strategic Mindset

Jan 11, 2023

Strategy is one of those important business concepts that many cannot recognize, develop or implement, yet businesses that endure have mastered. “Growth” is not a …

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Could You Make A Forever Promise?

Jan 4, 2023

The business model in manufacturing and distribution has long been own it, sell it, get paid for it. For most of those companies, it still …

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How Outdated is Your Job?

Dec 28, 2022

Are you a pneumatic tube operator? A COO is not a COO is not a COO. While the title Chief Operating Officer should indicate range …

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My Call is Not Important to You

Dec 21, 2022

When a recorded message for customers is considered a snide comment you’ve failed. Yet the way to fix that is not to prevent customers from …

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Excellence Betrayed by Mediocrity

Dec 14, 2022

The Cleveland Clinic is widely recognized as one of the best medical systems in the world. And its delivery of medical services deserves that recognition. …

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Moving Manufacturing Operations From China Because…..

Dec 7, 2022

A number of manufacturers have announced plans to leave China, primarily due to the upheaval in Hong Kong and impacts of the government’s “zero covid” …

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Is Yours a Supply Chain, Or Supply Mush?

Nov 30, 2022

As we advanced from craftsmen through the industrial revolution, Henry Ford decided the best way to make automobiles was a 100% vertically integrated business model. …

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