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  • Why Human Resources Are The Real Key To Success In This Information Age

     The rapid changes that have mainly been brought about by the information age are numerous and irreversible. They have affected our way of life on virtually every front and have left many old companies in ruins while causing other new ones to swiftly emerge and grow to great unprecedented profitability, literally overnight.But despite everything, there are still a few things that have not changed.More

  • Why Thinking Is Too Important To Be Left Only To Management

     In creating "flow manufacturing" or just in time manufacturing the idea at Toyota was to make sure the flow was hardly ever broken or interrupted. After all the idea was to maximize on production and the way to do this was to keep an assembly line moving.For this reason a worker's main responsibility appears to be to work and not to think when they are supposed to be keeping production moving.More

  • The Big Mistake Companies Make In Their Training Programs

     Many organizations spend huge sums of money on staff training and development and yet many times the investment does not yield the desired results.The reason for this lack of results and what really goes wrong usually remains a mystery to most company executives. Especially where they have taken great care in selecting a top-notch expensive training outfit to carry out their staff development program.More

  • Why Employees Are the Best Source of Cost-cutting Ideas

     Cost cutting has become a necessary and important reality in the modern corporate world. Yet many executives do not realize that their people are actually the best source of cost reduction ideas.There are several reasons for this.More

  • Can A Business Still Be Profitable When People Skills Are Absent?

     In our current world of rapid and amazing technological advances, many entrepreneurs have managed to dramatically limit the need for staff in highly profitable operations of all kinds.It is therefore tempting and believable to imagine that with every passing day, the need for people skills is diminishing. In fact most entrepreneurs are convinced that one no longer requires people skills to run a highly profitable enterprise.More

  • Have You Always Thought That The Best Ideas Come From Research Or Management? Think Again

     Many entrepreneurs and chief executive officers are unaware that there are many factors that put ordinary workers at a great advantage over R&D and management when it comes to generating useful improvement ideas and even new products ideas for a corporation.The people in research are usually hindered by the fact that it is difficult for them to stay in touch with the day to day running of the business and the problems that arise. Usually they will be following and developing a particular idea.More

  • Get It Done! Soft Skills not Hard Tools are Required

     If your organization has people, then interpersonal skills are needed.I work with companies that are on a path they call the lean journey. Whatever you call it, it’s based on the Toyota Production System.More

  • Involving People Gave Us the Improvements We Needed

     We had a problem with handling materials in a production department. Our process required raw materials to enter the department, be processed, and leave the department. The raw material was placed on pods, delivered for production, removed from the pods, placed on a staging fixture, removed from the fixture and process materials were then placed on another pod and delivered to an internal customer.More

  • Allan Kempert Discovers That Truly All You Gotta Do Is Ask

     A year or so ago, I met Allan Kempert. Allan was the Quality Assurance Supervisor for a metal stamping company in Ontario, and just completed Norman Bodek’s book, The Idea Generator, Quick and Easy Kaizen. As Allan explains, he couldn’t put the book down because it was such a simple approach and he knew that it was going to empower the employees at his place of employment.More

  • Understand What Flows Through Your Business to Find Improvement

     I remember once seeing a cartoon which showed two people working a counter. On the wall behind them was a sign which read, “Quality Work, Low Price, Fast Service – Pick Two.” In order to deliver all three, which is what customers expect, it’s important to understand the flows of your organization.More