Creating a Change Team in Manufacturing
You see the ways your manufacturing business could change for the better. You can sense it like a change in air pressure. You know that your processes could be more efficient, and that more innovation would help you buffer supply disruptions and skill deficits. To...
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Finding the Best People for Process Improvement
Any business, from Google to the hot dog cart guy, is defined by the people working in it. No matter how slick or strict your processes are, the people using them will adapt and (hopefully) improve them in their own image. It stands to reason, then, that you need...
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Real and False Urgency in Professional Services
When complacency sets root in an office environment, it’s hard to dig out. No amount of stern emails or strongly worded memos will give your team a sense of urgency. Only a culture of Process Improvement will do that. Forcing your team to rush isn’t healthy urgency....
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Real and False Urgency in Construction
By definition, construction is a manual industry. It depends on people’s hands to do the work of bringing a blueprint to reality. And its success or failure is directly related to the level of urgency that those hands (and minds) have bought into. Forcing a sense of...
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Real and False Urgency in Manufacturing
A culture of urgency is the fuel to drive Process Improvement forward. But when urgency breaks free of perspective, it becomes “busy-work”. And that can get dangerous on the shop floor. If you’ve come any distance down the “Lean Road”, you know that your sense of...
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Real and False Urgency
Complacency kills businesses. The problem is that we know this. We’re so scared of complacency that we push our teams to stay busy. Complacency kills; busyness wounds. Urgency is key. There are 2 kinds: False urgency needs this job done now and then the next job done...
read more2019 Federal Budget Commentary
Download this blog as a PDF here. On March 19, 2019 the Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance, presented the 2019 Federal Budget, Investing in the Middle Class, to the House of Commons. No changes were made to personal or corporate tax rates, nor to the...
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Map your Processes: The Easy Way
Processes are the neural pathways of the brain that is your business. From how you call Clients to counting money, we engage dozens of processes a day… and we never think about them. How many processes happen in your business that you don’t understand or are even...
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The 3 Most Dangerous Kinds of Disruption
"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." -Socrates We can’t ignore disruption. It impacts every single industry and if you think your business is immune, it will impact you hardest. We can’t stop...
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The Difference Between Innovation & Disruption
"The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out." -Aaron Levie, Box.net We’re doing business in an age of disruption. It’s a time when Netflix and Uber and arise from nowhere and smash their...
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