Getting Started with Supply Chain Segmentation
“All unsuccessful segmented supply chains are alike; each successful supply chain is successful in its own way.”
Justifying Your BPM Expenditures
Your BPM project must justify its price either by cutting costs or increasing revenue. This is about your return on investment (ROI). If the ROI isn’t there…
Risk Management & Process Management
I can’t imagine any company that doesn’t assess their risks. I am sure that there are thousands of ways companies assess risk. However, if companies are not in medical manufacturing they likely won’t have a documented procedure for managing risk.
BPM Failures
Rainer Ribback recently posted 5 reasons that BPM projects fail….
Business Process or Customer Journey?
For years, the focus of business process management was to manage a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product. The focus was all internal.
Analogies, Mind-Mapping and New Product Forecasting
There are two ways you can react to a “Hey – that was my idea” situation. The first would be to throw a pity party and lament about how unfair life is – if only the car hadn’t broken down and I didn’t have grass to mow and laundry to do I could have filed a patent and been a millionaire by now. The other is to recognize
When Finance Runs the Factory
Finance can be far more dangerous than poor quality because scrap, rework and customer returns all make themselves known very quickly. Financial performance metrics that drive dysfunctional operational behavior are, on the other hand, the elephant on the shop floor that simply does not go away.
Corporate Performance Management, Defined
Let’s get one thing straight right from the start, Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is not a software solution.
The Tragedy of Overcapacity
Capital investment in production capability is the weakest link in the business value chain. It always has been and likely always will be. It’s the driving force behind the tendency towards cartels, collusion and monopolies. While it can make the first entrant into a brand new market, in the long run
What Motivates Blockers to Resist Change?
Blocker (noun) - Someone who purposefully opposes any change (improvement) to a process for personal reasons.