You’re working on improvements in your organization. The goals and interim targets have been established by leadership.  And, as with most efforts to implement change, it seems the resistance to change is in full action.  You find yourself moving from battle to battle...

S M A R T Goals?  Well, sometimes…      By now everyone is familiar with SMART goal setting.  You know… S M A R T goals.     Specific. Measurable. Attainable. Realistic. Timely.    There’s even a form developed to ensure you can check all the boxes, allowing...

The Case for Waterfall Charts  Sound familiar?    Know that “over the edge” feeling when you find out the production plan you have in place…. And have had in place for several weeks…. Is not going to work for current demand?   Yeah, we’ve been there……..and despite...

We’ve all seen it. Metrics established for the year, and, for whatever reason, achieved prior to year-end. Sometimes by mid-year. Were we that good? Or was the target set too low? And now what? Ride out the year proudly displaying green to the goal? Tempting…very,...

It’s one of THOSE problems. You have tried every solution in your toolbox without success. It is not going away. The problem needs to be fixed so you can move forward. (In this context – it doesn’t matter whether this is a work problem, a home problem, a personal...

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Is that the description of your company’s last performance improvement project? (By William May, President, High Value Manufacturing Consulting) Most of us small business owners do not have a difficult time realizing that we need to improve our business. Typically, we...