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Intro to Lean Six Sigma Seminar
Operations Strategy and the NWIRC are partnering again to offer an Intro to Lean Six Sigma one-day seminar. The event will be held on Thursday, Sept. 30th at the Hampton Inn & Suites at the Grove City outlets. The price is $179 per person and includes lunch. For more details and to register, contact the NWIRC.
Client Feedback Needed
Over the past 18 months, many businesses have undergone changes and as a result, their needs have changed. We exist to support businesss and help them grow. We are in the process of re-evaluating our offerings in relation to client needs and need to hear from you. Please take a few minutes to answer the [...]
Stop Reading Books
We are spending too much time just reading books. We live in the information age and have more information available to us that any other time in history. We are practically drowning in information. And we need to stop it, NOW! Please, hear my heart on this. I absolutely love to read because I love [...]
EntreLeadership Announcement
We are pleased to announce that Operations Strategy Consulting is hosting Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership simulcast on November 5! The event will be held at Living Hope Church in Whitney, PA (near the Arnold Palmer Airport in Latrobe, PA). The Simulcast will begin at 9 a.m. (doors will open at 8:30 a.m.) and wrap up at 3:30 [...]
What’s Your Why?
This blog entry is focused mainly on business owners or companies that are still privately held. However, if you’re in a publicly traded company, the concepts will apply to your department or function just as easily. This week, I just have a challenge for you. As you go through the week, pause before each activity [...]
The Number One Productivity Killer
I’ve been reading Rework by 37signals founders Jason Fried (@jasonfried) and David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) this month and they have a short section titled “Interruption is the enemy of productivity.” The entire premise of the section is the reason you don’t get enough done at work is because of interruptions, which is why we can [...]
8 Reasons Continuous Improvement Programs Fail
Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, TPS, Agile and ISO are just a few of the initiatives companies embark upon to improve their performance and reduce costs. Unfortunately, many of these companies fail to achieve all the benefits from their efforts. The reason most improvement efforts fail is not because the company chose the wrong program or initiative, [...]
Efficient or Effective?
I’m starting to get tired of listening to people talk about efficiency. That may sound strange for someone in my position, but hear me out on this. We read things all the time about how to be more efficient. People talk about being more cost-efficient, more efficient with their time, and tracking employee efficiency. Merriam-Webster [...]
Are You Innovative?
In my last post, I talked about the importance of people within your organization and freeing them up so they can become more innovative. While I got a lot of great feedback from many of you, some disagreed. The thought being: “I don’t want people changing the process or experimenting on the job. I just [...]
Quality Doesn’t Matter
It doesn’t matter what you call it: Quality, Reengineering, TQM, Operational Excellence, Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, or Agile – the entire process is worthless as most companies are approaching it today. Quality, in many instances, has become just a word – and a rather empty word at that. It’s a term companies throw about and [...]
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