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Lesson #1: Service is the Secret to Success
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| Huizenga did not create three Fortune 1000 companies by accident. Nor was it simply luck that took him to the top. Instead, Huizenga implemented a formula for success that, through each of his ventures, has proven to work time after time. What was that formula? |
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Sales People..."How's It Going?"
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| Bosses would like to be your friend, but when they ask how it's going do you know what they are asking for? |
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THOUGHTS ON PRODUCTIVITY
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| 1. “PRODUCTIVITY IS MEANINGLESS UNLESS YOU KNOW YOUR GOAL.”
2. PRODUCTIVITY ALWAYS TRUMPS ACTIVITY (3 STORIES)
3. “I MUST DO THE MOST PRODUCTIVE THING POSSIBLE AT EVERY GIVEN MOMENT.” |
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How To Create Your Own Info Product
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| In the last article we talked about why informational products are the best type of products to sell online. An informational product can be a digital book (known as an e-book), a digital report or a white paper, a piece of software, audio or video files, a web site, an ezine (electronic magazine), or a newsletter. |
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Is Ford's auto-xchange the "Real Deal?" (Survey Response 4)
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| In a recent video that was released by The Ford Motor Company, Ford's Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Jim Yost indicated that the company has to "share information in real-time" and therefore can no longer use "the sequential processes” in which there were many “handoffs" and "transfers of information."
Yost also emphasized the fact that Ford needs to "integrate much more closely with their customers, supply base and even internally," as well as stressing the importance of making information available to multiple levels of their supply base "simultaneously," thereby eschewing the current "cascade processes that might take days, weeks and even months" to disseminate.
To enable you to respond to this question, you can access both the video as well as the corresponding article by contacting the author. |
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Exports and parliamentary laziness
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| There are few moments at which business executives may safely weep and earn nothing but respect and admiration. One of these is at the opening of a new manufacturing plant. |
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The Power of Two: Partnerships in the Manufacturing Industry
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| In the manufacturing industry, the term partnership used to apply to old-school joint ventures, now it can just as easily be used in the context of modern distribution, licensing or joint development deals. To start a new business in this traditionally cash-strapped, union-laden industry, it’s important to understand the attributes of a partnership in the manufacturing industry, and success stories from the most 4 beneficial types of partnerships for small businesses. |
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Kyaizen An Old New Quality Concept
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| 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. |
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Exports and parliamentary laziness
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| There are few moments at which business executives may safely weep and earn nothing but respect and admiration. One of these is at the opening of a new manufacturing plant. |
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Manufacturing productivity tool belt
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| 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 |
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Plant Design, Production Floor Design, Factory Layout Design, Factory Floor Plan, Plant Layout,
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| Techniques of Plant Design, Layout Plant, Floor Plan, Plant Layout, or the physical organization of people, materials and machines within a workplace, is at the very heart of productivity.
Yes, layout requires fitting workstations into a building floor plan but that is the last step. First define the operating characteristics of your process, and a new layout will be much easier to plan, and more effective when implemented.
Jack Greene is the author of the Amazon book in print and Kindle editions, Plant Design, Facility Layout, Floor Planning. Please search Amazon for this title. It goes into greater detail than this article, and includes examples of layouts designed to fit into particular building shapes.
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How To Keep Your Business Afloat
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| I was talking with my good friend Doug Maurer the other day. Doug is the founder and owner of Brian-Kyles Construction, which is a landscaping company based in Northeast Ohio.
Doug was talking with me about a plant in my front yard that wasn't doing so well. He was explaining how I should cut the shrub down to its base to re-balance the plant so the roots were larger than the plant itself. And then he said a magical quote, "plants don't want to die."
It got me to thinking about how businesses are a lot like plants. Businesses don't want to die either. This is particularly true of small businesses. |
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How Do I Keep My Business Afloat?
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| "Plants don't want to die."
Doug Maurer, Brian-Kyles Construction
I was talking with my good friend Doug Maurer the other day. Doug is the founder and owner of Brian-Kyles Construction, which is a landscaping company based in Northeast Ohio.
Doug was talking with me about a plant in my front yard that wasn't doing so well. He was explaining how I should cut the shrub down to its base to re-balance the plant so the roots were larger than the plant itself. And then he said the quote above regarding plants not wanting to die.
It got me to thinking about how businesses are a lot like plants. Businesses don't want to die either. This is particularly true of small businesses. |
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Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Easy
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| The Plant Manager was becoming increasingly frustrated. His production manager was struggling to meet plant performance targets and was not getting his team to take ownership of achieving results. The initial diagnosis was that the production manager was being too easy on his team. As with most management problems, only two or three behaviours cause the majority of aggravation and frustration. Here we examine how to help an easy-going manager achieve what needs to get done. |
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Is It Time to Rebuild America's Middle Class
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| While the Ford Motor Company is certainly associated with Detroit, Ford also cranked out cars in Pittsburgh, PA, reports Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post as it will explain how Pittsburgh’s Ford plant illustrates that America’s complex manufacturing backbone was created over many decades yet was wiped out in 10 years. In order to rebuild its middle class, America must make a conscious and collective national decision to be friendlier to capital investment in order to create opportunities associated with energy, mining, manufacturing, distributing, and selling goods and services.
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Total Productive Maintanance Techniques
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| TPM is an innovative Japanese concept. The origin of TPM can be traced back to 1951 when preventive maintenance was introduced in Japan. However the concept of preventive maintenance was taken from USA. Thus all employees took part in implementing Productive maintenance. Based on these developments Nippondenso was awarded the distinguished plant prize for developing and implementing TPM, by the Japanese Institute of Plant Engineers (JIPE). |
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