Breakthrough in scheduling simplifies managing a plant, while making it more responsive, improving on time delivery and throughput. Imagine if… Your plant ran on auto-pilot – people know what to do, and they do it! Every resource is synchronized to your customer’s need You deliver every order not only when you promised it, but sooner. Your […]
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On April 29, 8am-9:30am PST, I’ll be presenting a webinar on Critical Chain Project Management. This event is sponsored by the Theory of Constraints Certification Organization (TOCICO). This one hour presentation (with a half hour for questions) by me, Mark Woeppel, will present the core concepts of the CCPM method as it applies to three main
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Continuous Improvement (CI) organizations must be profit centers, not cost centers. Too often, these organizations are established with little thought as to how they will function with the rest of the organization. As a result, the CI organization goes about aimlessly “improving”, with no bottom line results from their effort. No results = no buy-in. No
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According to Kishore Sengupta, an associate professor at France’s Insead business school, says that project managers says with 10 or more years of experience collectively generated higher costs and more errors and missed more deadlines than less-experienced colleagues. Mr. Sengupta developed a simulation program for project management that demonstrates when project managers fall into the patterns
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The main reason organizations don’t realize maximum output from their capacity is that planning and execution behavior is not aligned with the global purpose of the organization. There are two behaviors that account for this misalignment. They are: Over-production; Making more than the customer (or the next step) requires. Usually manifested as batching behaviors and Releasing
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A parable is a short story that conveys a profound truth. A friend of mine, Clarke Ching, wrote this compact business book that contains a GREAT idea. Spend 20 minutes reading it. You’ll be glad you did. Rocks Into Gold – Helping Programmers THRIVE through the Credit Crunch – by Clarke Ching View more presentations or
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One would think we have the idea by now…
A recent study done by the London School of Economics and Stanford University shows that a standard of management practice is linked to the favorable financial performance of the business. The way an organization is managed has a strong effect on its performance. It also states that “Management excellence is a matter of internal policy and not just the business environment”
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It’s that time of the year; review your past successes and update your plans for the coming year or so… I was doing some research on selling professional services, and ran accross the “best business brochure ever written”. It was a brochure written by Arthur D. Little for his fledgling consulting firm. In it, he describes
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You may already know this, but a CCPM implementation is not much to fear. Think of it this way: “CCPM is a disciplined approach to managing the work we already do.” The reality is, that the work of your firm does not change. CCPM is simply addition and subtraction. You’re adding some new behaviors: Planning with
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