Here are some thoughts and observations about integrating your business strategy with your improvement efforts – and how our LeanStrategy practice can help you fulfill your Lean potential. We hope this information is helpful (click here to send us your feedback).
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It is generally agreed that leadership is hard to define, but easy to see when present. The same can be said of strategy – a buzzword so misunderstood that it has become like one of the great black arts of our age. Most practitioners of strategic consulting would have you believe that strategy is the arena only of the anointed few, those blessed with perfect vision from 30,000 feet. Read more…
We have a prediction. In the perfect hindsight that will eventually come, 2002 will be seen as a turning point in strategic business thinking. It will be the year that the ROI school of thought championed by most business schools came tumbling down; the year that forward-thinking businesses returned to concentrating on value creation instead of financial engineering. Read more…
Post-Enron, post-WorldCom, talk of aggressive business growth has acquired a taint – as if we should not discuss it in polite company. For a Lean business, however, growth is our lifeblood; stability is like a slow death. When you are improving productivity by 15 percent each year, growth is essential to unlock real profitability. Read more…