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Production series: PC – 01
Volume 1, Issue 3
Synchronous Profitable Operations (SPO): the ideal production method for suppliers
Top managers often ask themselves: How can the expected financial and operational performance be simultaneously achieved?
They know that they must produce and sell only products that are: […]

I invite you to see my answer to Michael Sinocchi’s question: “Can You Plan and Execute Strategic Productivity Improvements Without Incurring Large Expenditures?”

The Lean Insider: Can You Plan and Execute Strategic Productivity Im… https://t.co/x9uwWs7Wu0— Exegens (@Exegens) April 11 […]

Daily Kaizen is very important, but it is very difficult for all organizations to completely and continuously achieve all their operational and financial expectations simultaneously using only this. Strategic Kaizen is required to achieve all that.
In short, Strategic Kaizen is top-down leadership to simultaneously meet […]

Everyone would like to see successful Strategic Kaizen projects, because these are the types of challenges that the organization faces whether they are aware of these challenges or not. With this in mind, consider the following four essential points for promoting Strategic Kaizen Thinking:

promote a realistic KAIZENshir […]

Many organizations are struggling to make continuous improvements. But, one fact is obvious: often organizational leaders are disappointed with the results of continuous improvement. Is failure an option? Of course not. Especially in these trying times.
What to do? How to maintain the momentum for strategic improvements? […]

The concept of “synchronization”, or JIT and its practice are very important, but it is very difficult for all manufacturing companies to achieve a complete and especially profitable “synchronization”. For final manufacturers, “synchronization” seems to be still an extremely effective […]

Strategic Kaizen is important, but it is difficult to achieve continuous profitable transformation by aligns company goals (strategy) with middle management’s annual plans (tactics) and the annual work performed by employees (operations) in this way. In fact, Strategic Kaizen Transformation is needed.
So, in this b […]

Daily Kaizen is very important, but it is very difficult for all organizations to completely and continuously achieve all their operational and financial expectations simultaneously using only this. Strategic Kaizen is required to achieve all that.
In short, Strategic Kaizen is top-down leadership to simultaneously meet […]

New book! ‘Beyond Strategic KAIZEN‘
It has been a pleasure and challenge for me to do research for this new book over the past 20+ years. I started by researching the interactions between target operating time and inventory structures at the production flow level and detailed typologies of losses and waste for each c […]