The collected Body Of Knowledge of the Operational Excellence Society.
Is email out of control in your organization? Are you frustrated that your employees seem to be constantly ‘using email’ and not focusing on the important issues? At the same time, do you feel that the issue is not strategic enough to warrant your detailed attention – that it can’t be a top management concern? The…
ByEd Giles
Have you noticed the plethora of web apps lately? Whether you need something for your desktop or your mobile device, it seems that no matter what the situation, a web app can be procured to handle it. Lately, the mobile market has been the target of most of the web apps that we are becoming familiar…
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on “Operational Improvement and the Potential that can be Realized” at the Association for Corporate Growth’s (2nd Annual Manufacturing & Logistics Conference” at the Westchester Country Club The conference kicked-off with a keynote address from Matt “Boom” Daniel, the owner of Business Battlefield,…
ByEd Giles
“Green is the new black,” but businesses are finding it’s an easy way to put them in the red. What did you do to celebrate Earth Day? Admittedly, I neglected to do much about it myself – unless you count noticing the “Google Doodle” that morning… One of the biggest pushes in our culture recently is…
Many times, regardless of how well we plan, some things just fail. Maybe it’s a webinar or a meeting presentation that was well prepared for, but suffered technical difficulty; maybe a savings plan losing nearly half of its value in today’s recession. These challenging situations define our days, but our responses to them determine our…
When was the last time you created a Pareto chart manually? For those of you not familiar with a “Pareto ” chart, it is simply a bar chart that organizes the categories from highest-to-lowest in frequency of occurrence. Pareto charts are useful when “issues” outnumber the resources available to solve them; obviously, you would want to put the resources on…
