With labor, plastics, chips, cans and many other global shortages, demand is far greater than supply for many manufacturers. The question is: How best do …
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Allocation of Insufficient Supply
Category Archives: Leadership
IIoT Programming is Easy
Industrial Internet of Things is the digitization of important variables, with that data converted into information that creates faster and better decision making. Business leaders …
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How to Define a Mission that Matters
Saying your mission is to be the best at whatever it is that you do, using whatever technology you use, is meaningless to the outside …
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Why Mission Matters to Your Business
Mission, vision, and core value statements were once considered serious. And then fluff, because companies had them, but didn’t live them. Thank goodness we’re never …
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Learning from Observation
CEOs, COOs, and consultants like myself do NOT know everything. We shouldn’t pretend to, nor expect ourselves to. We do need to constantly focus on …
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Move Forward Now, or Delay?
Inconvenience and risk are present in our manufacturing businesses every day. Some should not prevent us from moving forward now; others represent to much potential …
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Lean is NOT Toyota’s system
Last week’s podcast exposed my frustration with executives and journalists who claim to understand lean but obviously, to me and my opinionated thinking, do not. Today …
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JIT is NOT the Problem!
The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are fact-based high-quality newspapers. Each has acquired ‘political leanings’ in some of their writing, but for …
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Don’t Accept False Choices
When I was growing up in manufacturing a primary point of friction between leadership and production workers was “quality or quantity.” Leaders did not understand …
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Attracting the Best Candidates
As manufacturers are searching high and low for employees, it is crucial that we not make bad hiring decisions out of a sense of desperation. …
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