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Short-list announced for the 4th annual CEE Manufacturing Excellence and Industrial Property Awards
ByOperational Excellence Society May 26, 2016November 9, 2016
Short-list announced for the 4th annual CEE Manufacturing Excellence and Industrial Property Awards The semi-final results for the upcoming EuropaProperty CEE Manufacturing Excellence and Industrial Property Awards representing the most outstanding and accomplished manufacturers, suppliers, companies, and individuals throughout the region in 2015 has been announced. The anticipated celebration, which will be attended by some…
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“Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?” an OpEx Answer
ByPiotr Pikuła May 26, 2016October 19, 2016
This is the story of an animal feed company in Poland and answers the question “why did the chicken cross the road?” An Interim project for KPI selection and building the Dashboard for Management on different levels. I am an Interim CFO with 20+ years of progressive experience in Finance. From consulting (audit and advisory…
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Right-Sizing your Current State Assessment
ByCarla Gregory May 24, 2016October 19, 2016
Right-Sizing your Current State Assessment Clients come to us when they need to redesign their business processes, and one thing is generally true of them all: they believe they need to do an in-depth current state assessment before they put pen to whiteboard to design the future state. They are surprised to learn that not…
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Leading with Lean – Part 2
ByOperational Excellence Society May 20, 2016January 3, 2020
Steve Jobs once said: “Be a Yardstick of Quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected” Therefore a Quality Mind-set will only pervade the organisation when the Leadership actively models the behaviour. Only by living the approach to Quality that they desire can Leaders truly drive the change to a Culture…
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Inside the Gigafactory That Will Decide Tesla’s Fate
ByBloomberg.com May 18, 2016February 24, 2021
The scope of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk’s vision – on par with the breadth of Tesla’s ambitions – is limitless to say the least. Bloomberg gives us an exclusive look inside Musk’s latest billion-dollar venture here, that goes by the name of Gigafactory 1. Born of the necessity to build a voluminous amount of batteries, the…
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The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure
ByTED May 18, 2016April 9, 2021
Entrepreneur, inventor, author and the head of X (formerly Google X), Astro Teller is a man on a mission with ideas that could reshape our lives and help make the world a wonderful place through technology. In this amazing TED talk, he gives us an insider look into what is called the “moonshot factory,” where he…
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