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Using smart goals and data-driven assessment

Lead on Purpose

Smart goals and data-driven assessment help employees and managers map career advancement – Guest post by Danielle M. Setting SMART goals. Here’s what the acronym means: Specific: When an individual or team needs to tackle a large general goal, such as “Increase productivity,” it often helps to specify the desired action.

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3 Tools for Streamlining Processes in Manufacturing

Strategy Driven

Manufacturing cloud – this can help you to create transparency through each process. Kanban is another great tool that manufacturing companies can use to streamline their business processes. It is a Japanese scheduling system for lean manufacturing. PDCA Cycle. Check – keep an eye out for areas that can be improved.

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084: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less | with Bob Sutton

Engaging Leader

Or, if you have a key practice or mindset — for example, lean manufacturing — how do you […]. Or, if you have a key practice or mindset -- for example, lean manufacturing -- how do you spread it throughout your organization? That’s a question that Starbucks certainly struggled to answer.

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Improving Your Team’s Lean Project Management

Strategy Driven

At its core, lean project management is about delivering greater value while minimizing waste. If your goal is to improve your team’s lean project management, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity, you need to take a number of key steps. Lean is a business philosophy that first began within the manufacturing industry.

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Fighting The Good Startup Fight (Without a Unicorn In Sight)

Terry Starbucker

.” I’ve also been to Kjell’s shop on several occasions, and have seen the values in action, along with a really cool example of how lean manufacturing works. Yes, Kjell isn’t searching for unicorns. Call it a More Human Business. And amen to that.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment.

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Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains

Harvard Business Review

The ways individual companies achieve these straightforward goals fall in two basic categories: developing and adopting new management practices (such as total quality management, lean manufacturing, reengineering, and employee engagement), or adopting new technology and integrating it into the way work is done.