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3 Ways to Promote a Customer/Employee Centric Philosophy

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3 Ways to Promote a Customer/Employee Centric Philosophy The identity of an organization is defined by one important factor – its employees. This is especially true when it comes to the development of a customer-centric culture. For this reason, management and senior executives should find ways to build up and sustain their organization’s capacity to […]

[VIDEO] What Are You Willing to Give Up?

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Breaking down silos and digging out the old entrenched habits in an organization can be a painful challenge. It really does take grit and determination to start making real change. It takes free-thinking, flexible leaders who are will to challenge everything and change the norms. What are you willing to give up to create fast, […]

Value and Lean Is About Focusing on ‘The Five’

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A lean thinking organization understands customer value and focuses all its processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide absolute value to the customer. It encourages the practice of continuous improvement and is based on the fundamental idea of respect for people. This is accomplished through the perfection of a creation process […]

[VIDEO] Lean Thinking Principles

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Lean was born out of manufacturing practices, but in recent times, has transformed the world of knowledge work and management. It encourages the practice of continuous improvement and is based on the fundamental idea of respect for people. Womack and Jones defined the five principles of Lean manufacturing in their book The Machine That Changed […]

[VIDEO] Bosch Home Appliances Factory Tour

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Bosch Home Appliances is the largest manufacturer of home appliances in Europe, and one of the leading manufacturers of home appliances on a global scale. Bosch is the result of a joint venture between Robert Bosch GmbH and Siemens AG. In 2017, they reported annual sales over 13.8 billion euros, operating 40 factories worldwide. Including […]

3 Advantages of Incorporating Big Data in LSS Projects

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Big data is all around us, and as more and more is being said on the subject, it seems like some people are significantly behind the times with regards to their adoption of this technology. Which is a shame, because incorporating big data is easily one of the best things that can be done to […]

Big Data and Six Sigma: Making the Connection

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As the influence of big data is becoming more and more obvious in all sorts of industries around us, we’re also starting to explore its connection to other fields. Six Sigma is an obvious candidate for this, being a methodology based mainly on optimization and the reduction of unnecessary work, while also ensuring that the […]

[VIDEO] Building Strength With Key Performance Indicators

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can shape strategy and fact-based decision making inside businesses, only if those inside the organization act on them.  It doesn’t matter how brilliantly you’ve aligned your KPIs to your strategy, or even how brilliantly you have captured and presented the relevant KPIs, if they aren’t used as they were intended. If […]

Optimizing Inventory in a Manufacturing Plant: 5 Methods

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Senior executives of manufacturing organizations all know and understand the importance of managing inventory. What is surprising is how many managers are unable to get inventory optimization right. This can be attributed to the fact that many decision makers tend to rely on a range of external benchmarks which rarely give accurate insights. As a […]