Situation: “I struggle at getting to the core of issues or problems in a efficient way.” Bulletin: Tools are instruments used to assist in getting a result. Tools by themselves do not get the result unless they are in the hands of a knowledgeable user. Here is a tool to help get to the core…
Tag Archive: process improvement
Who the heck is “MO”?
All of a sudden, the home team comes alive and starts moving the ball down the field with ease. The announcer declares “looks like Mo has changed sides again”. Who in the heck is Mo, he wasn’t on the roster for either team and yet everyone in the stadium seems to know where he is…
“Measure What?”
“What gets measured gets managed”. A quote attributed to Peter Drucker. Managing a business requires a broad set of skills and attention to all parts of the business. Many CEO’s are good at making or selling “things” (goods and service offerings) but some don’t spend enough time monitoring the overall health of their business. Keeping…
“but we are different”
I met with a company that was having severe operating problems. They were experiencing increasing order backlogs; excess component inventories; high expedite cost of out-of-stock components; and very poor communication between internal departments. When I explored their processes and asked a few questions about why they did not do things differently in a particular area,…
Grow Your Company with PR
In 2005 I consulted for a start-up that was owned by an entrepreneur who had a public relations back ground. I learned the value of good Public Relations (PR) and since then I have always consider it the next best form of advertising. I believe the best form of advertising is word of mouth. PR…
Are your new products failing and you don’t know why?
We conducted a survey of several Puget Sound companies asking them which area of their business caused them the greatest concern. The issue rated the highest was the failure to introduce successful new products. When asking these companies to explain why they see this issue as their greatest challenge, the responses were as diverse as…
The 12 Steps of effective businesspeople
Do your work before you play. Always do more than others expect of you. Never quit trying to become better at something. Be willing to do the things you don’t like to do in order to achieve what you want. Be willing to accept failure and disappointment as a part of learning. Recognize that there…
25 Attributes of Effective Teams
If you take a magnifying glass and hold it up to most organizations recognized for their effectiveness, you will see that they have two characteristics in common; they have effective Leadership and they operate through effective Teams. If you believe the chicken came before the egg, then you would agree that it takes effective leadership…
Entrepreneur or “PermopreneurTM”? Which are you?
Entrepreneurs are heralded by the business community as key contributors to the success of the US Economy; probably one of the most resilient economies in the world (even in a recession). New products, technologies and business ideas are the objectives of millions of aspiring Entrepreneurs throughout the world. Yet, there is an 80% failure rate…
The “5″ P’s of Marketing
There are many misconceptions as to what is marketing and what it can do for an organization. Marketing is best described as a process intended to increase the perceived value and to stimulate demand for a product. A product, in our case, will mean both a physical product and a service, which is then translated…
