“Our virtual teams are not effective.”
Virtual teams are handicapped by geographical distances when most people are accustomed to the team being at the same location or in the same room for team meetings. With the modern technology available, it is possible to “bring together” a team in different...
How do we develop more resilience and flexibility in our workforce?
Today’s global marketplace is a constantly changing scenario of new technologies, economic swings, emerging customer expectations, and organizational capabilities. Many organizations struggle to keep up with all these changes and hold onto a secure position in...
“We need real partnerships with our stakeholders.”
Your stakeholders are the lifeblood of your organization. Lose customers, associates, etc. and your organization dries up and disappears. Fulfill the critical needs of your key stakeholders better than competition and you will have all the business you want. Most...
“We tried Lean production and it didn’t work for us.”
Our strategic partner, Jeffrey Liker (author of The Toyota Way) has said, “The problem, I believe, is that U.S. companies have embraced lean tools but do not understand what makes them work together in a system…they do not understand the power behind true TPS...
Leaders aren’t experienced in HPO but are interested
Who doesn’t want to be a high performer? Why would anyone turn down opportunities to become more competitive in the marketplace? Sometimes, people have a conceptual vision of high performance, but have never personally been part of such a team effort. Like the...