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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7c – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Inventory

Strategy Driven

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation

Strategy Driven

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates. About the Author.

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7a – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Overproduction

Strategy Driven

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. Want to learn more? About the Author.

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7 – Target Non-Value-Adding Work to Improve Efficiency

Strategy Driven

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates. Want to learn more? About the Author.

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 6 – Succession of Authority

Strategy Driven

In other instances, business operations cease altogether. An executable authority succession pan is one such mechanism used to avoid a policy-driven operational stoppage. You just finished reading Tactical Execution Best Practice 6 - Succession of Authority ! Tactical Execution Best Practice 4 – Eliminate Redundant Work.

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Tactical Execution – Improving Cross-Functional Performance

Strategy Driven

It’s difficult enough for a manager to align, streamline, and make efficient those business operations under his or her direct control; adding one or more other work groups to a process’s execution exponentially increases this challenge. You just finished reading Tactical Execution - Improving Cross-Functional Performance !

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Combating Thought-Terminating Clichés: Metaphorical Warfare Strategies for Organizational Change Thought-terminating clichés, while effective tools for maintaining the status quo and consolidating power, can stifle innovation, suppress genuine dialogue, and mute marginalized voices within organizations (Smith, 2018).