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Standardizing your company’s approach can pay off. Here’s how. by Michael Mankins In lean manufacturing, the goal is to establish precise procedures for making products in the safest, easiest, and ...

Lean and just-in-time (JIT) strategies are still vital to supply chains. Lean management practices JIT strategies may have taken a beating in recent years, but only because companies relied too ...

When it comes to overall business health, growth and efficiency tend to be two of the key factors that many business owners will evaluate to measure success. Even a successful business can spiral ...

Startups operate in a fast-paced environment where resources are scarce, time is of the essence, and the margin for error is ...

Taichi Ohno, progenitor of the Toyota Production System, identified seven forms of waste, and lean insiders often add an eighth: the waste of human resources. I propose a ninth: the waste of ...

The world is becoming more complex every day. The rate of change is also increasing, which means that the speed of commerce and globalization only adds to the complexity we need to cope with. This ...

In our first blog of this series, we highlighted that strategic thinking is a skill and one that can be improved and developed. So, what is strategy? What does it mean? From the Oxford Dictionary, a ...