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Practical Productivity Improvement and Cost Reduction
Inexpensive and quick actions to raise output and / or lower input in your organization, whatever your line of business. Act to raise profits or output, to ease bottlenecks, to refine operations that have lost their sharp focus over time or start effective new ones. My Amazon book, Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive, offers examples of practical ideas to effect real cost change.

Manufacturing productivity tool belt
To improve manufacturing productivity, to cut cost and add output, many tools and practices are useful for specific applications. Use this checklist to review your own manufacturing operations; follow them to the more significant opportunities

Cost Control in this Economy
Cost control is not just a checklist, but a way of thinking that cost effectiveness is the primary objective. Focus on results, not the process. And please, don’t just look at direct hourly people for improvement. That is probably not where your big costs are. Show me the money. For a deeper analysis, my book called Cost Reduction; Survive, Recover, Thrive offers actions for any phase of the economy, for all levels of the organization chart. It is listed on Amazon, search by the title please. It is available in a Kindle edition as well as paperback.

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Kyaizen An Old New Quality Concept
The Japanese word 'Kaizen' means gradual, unending improvement; doing little things better; setting - and achieving - ever-higher standards. Masaaki Imai, the author of a book with the same title in the late eighties, says that it is Kaizen that is the simple truth behind Japan's economic miracle and the real reason the Japanese have become the masters of "flexible manufacturing" technology - the ability to adapt manufacturing processes to changing customer and market requirements, and do it fast.
PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS, and FOCUS – Doing the Next Right Thing
There has been an exponential explosion of information available for increasing personal productivity, so much so that it’s become known as productivity porn (or, for those active on the Net and looking to avoid spam blockers, productivity pr0n). Productivity Pr0n consists of those techniques, tools, and all-out systems for getting more organized and maximizing personal productivity.
Productivity Leadership - Part Four 'Development'
“Productivity Leadership” is Part Four ‘Development’ in an integrated approach to human resources management. A mere 5% productivity improvement would vastly energize any organization. We bet you can do better. Part Five 'Compensation'.
Sales force productivity: Eight Practices to Ensure Your Sales Success
We have never needed to improve sales productivity more than we do in this dreadful economy. For decades, businesses have embraced productivity and cost controls in operational functions like manufacturing and distribution; programs like Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and LEAN are thriving all over the map. Except in the sales department. We suggest that sales organizations can benefit dramatically from adopting some basic principles of productivity management, simple business techniques that lower costs, improve customer profitability and retention, and reduce sales-person turnover. This article explores the eight key practices that contribute to productivity. If the practice is in place in your usiness, it will contribute to productivity. But if it is not, it will actually inhibit productivity and drive up costs.
Manufacturing productivity tool belt
To improve manufacturing productivity, to cut cost and add output, many tools and practices are useful for specific applications. Use this checklist to review your own manufacturing operations; follow them to the more significant opportunities

It's time for Marketing to work from a system!
I will tell you an idea that has “Stuck" for many years! Only half of your marketing really works, you just don't know which half? Would you allow manufacturing or service to be only 50% efficient? Change the way you view sales and marketing, and get a handle on sales/marketing process improvement.

Monetize Lost Productivity
By definition, productivity is a measure of output from a production process, per unit of input or more simply yielding results, benefits or profits. Productivity is distinct from profitability. Profitability is the net difference between revenues and expenses. However, every little improvement to productivity has a direct impact on your profitability.
Productivity Improvement via Method study
There are a number of approaches to improving productivity: the best-known currently is probably ‘Lean’ but such approaches go back many years to the days of the early ‘productivity pioneers’. Many people (and especially people of ‘a certain age’) will immediately think of ‘time and motion’ when asked to describe a productivity methodology. This refers to the early days of ‘work study’ when the aim (as it often still is today) is to reduce the time taken by, and the motion involved in, work. The ‘improvement’ methodology of work study that derived from time & motion study was method study … and an understanding of method study gives a real insight into how all productivity improvement methodologies work.

Do's & Don'ts of BenchMarking
Benchmarking is usually part of a larger effort, usually a Process Re-engineering or Quality Improvement initiative. Most of the early work in the area of benchmarking was done in manufacturing. Now benchmarking is a management tool that is being applied almost anywhere.
When Lean Thinking Fails
Most of us are familiar with the term "Lean Thinking." The technique for making continuous improvement has been around for nearly 30 years, and it produces remarkable progress in any organization when it is applied correctly. There are numerous examples of how a well-engineered Kaizen event can yield a more than 50% improvement in productivity in a single week. My observation is that there are nearly as many failures of lean programs as successes. This article outlines some reasons why.
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