You’ve all heard that great strategy with poor execution is no better than poor strategy with great execution. Operational effectiveness requires excellence at both levels. …
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Two Levels of Operational Effectiveness
Category Archives: Strategy
Partnerships and Unilateral Changes
Partner. Relationship business. It all sounds so good. But then reality slaps you up the side of the head. In a true partnership, can one …
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Manufacturing Outputs For Your Future
We manufacturers know that we are responsible for the outputs of cost, quality, product performance and delivery; we also know that many others in our …
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Seven Levers to Shape Your Manufacturing Business
Why are some manufacturing businesses a hot mess, while others are a great place to work as you provide exciting value to the market? A …
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ChatGPT and Manufacturing
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
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!
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
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?
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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Moving Manufacturing Operations From China Because…..
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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