Lean Purchasing for Manufacturers
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Purchasing and supply-chain management are often ignored when it comes to lean implementations.
<em>Muda</em> at the Market
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Placing hundreds of sales tags can be a time-consuming morale killer for workers.
How Speeding Up Payments to Small Businesses Creates Jobs
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Even small improvements in cash collection can have large, direct effects on hiring.
Kaizen Revisited
Here is an article I wrote 10 years ago, recently resurrected from the lost letter file. I can’t remember why I wrote it or for whom. Originally titled, “What is Kaizen?” the article still resonates with me as I hope it will with you.
Productivity Hacking in Quality Management
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A successful quality management system: It takes a village