

Maximizing Offshore Production Yields!
Maximizing Offshore Production Yields! Barriers are plenty when it comes to optimizing production yields offshore. I’m not even writing...


Problem Solving, the Forge of Corporate Culture, Engages Employees
It happened again this past week! A client asked how you mold corporate culture. This was part of a brand new merger where the challenge...


Social Acumen of the Informal Leaders Accelerate Projects
In 2001, a group of IT project managers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. This was in response to a long history of...


Removing Barriers to Productivity: The Concept
Work Measurement Work measurement, the science of relating work to time, is a broad field. There are numerous techniques for measuring...


What's an Expert
The point of the story is the difference between knowledge and experience. Our interconnected world is now full of easily accessed informati


Reliability = Zero Breakdowns
From a reliability perspective, think about it - zero breakdowns. It sounds radical. It was first proposed by Seiichi Nakagima in his...


A Core Management Tool: the Business Case
There are three principles to keep in mind with business cases. One, a business case in a living document that will grow (in accuracy and...


The Engagement Culture
Our experience is that, as we’ve said repeatedly, People is the most important part of Purpose, Process and People in transformational...


Managing Resistance to Change
We recently conducted a series of change management workshops for a client. The workshop consisted of middle and line managers in an...


Planning & Scheduling Determine Wrench Time Before Work Starts
As we start our training for maintenance planner/schedulers, we tell the class that their objective is to treat the craftsmen like...




















