Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

Scheduling: A Tale of Two Businesses
September 3, 2013

For those of you who have asked for more detail about systemizing your company—particularly your SCHEDULING system—HERE IT IS! Hope you “wing and a prayer” people will lean in!

New Wine for New Times
August 12, 2013

Insisting that certain people adopt a "new and better way" of doing something can actually make a situation worse. To cure your business, heed advice from a first century physician named Luke, about the consequences of pouring NEW wine into OLD wineskins.

Do THIS, Then You Can Do THAT
July 29, 2013

Folks, there is a way to do the THAT's in life and business, which owners and managers should do. However, I'm a witness to THIS fact—you will never get to all the THAT's unless you do THIS! Got it? Good!

Exceptions AS the RULE
July 15, 2013

Recently I was visiting a client, in order to find the reason why they were having some difficulty implementing and keeping a few simple systems up and running.

Competing with Robots (Look to QuadTech and Valpak)
July 9, 2013

As a 32-year-old planning on living and working for some time, I’ve naturally developed a healthy fear of being replaced by a robot. There must be some technical term for this, but I have not found it. I’d much rather make use of the robots, than be replaced by one.

Epson Announces Investment in Production Lines for Next Generation Print Heads
July 2, 2013

Seiko Epson has invested approximately 16 billion yen in two new production lines in Japan. The lines have been constructed to manufacture next-generation print heads—the core component in inkjet printers—for use in business and industrial printing systems to come to market in the latter part of the 2013 fiscal year.

Epson believes that the enhanced precision and density of the new print head will act as a platform for significantly improving the fundamental performance of Epson inkjet printers, and for making further improvements going forward.

What are Your Employees Really Doing?
June 24, 2013

There needs to be standardized processes for every area of your operation, not just vague assignments that leave a new employee to figure out some kind of procedure that may or may not fit with your organization. Give your new employee an established procedure for performing important tasks in your operation, and the new hire will be empowered to hit the ground running.