strategy

Competitive Supremacy through Cost Improvement: True Productivity Reveals your Hidden Profitability

The major challenge of top managers is to find the way to consistently obtain annual and multiannual manufacturing target profit regardless of the evolution of sales volumes, increasing or decreasing.

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The basic goal of MCPD thinking is to ensure a sustainable competitive supremacy through cost-competitiveness improvement to achieve real structural profit reform based on productivity reform.
At the beginning of the MCPD projects, managers and practitioners are concerned about:

concomitant reconciliation between the […]

Often, one of the first questions that I ask top managers is about the current and future production capacity needed in connection with the vision and mission of productivity.
Successful planning and implementation of strategic Kaizen and Kaikaku for cost improvement requires answers to questions such as:

What is the s […]

Mastering the Performance of New Work Methods and the Variation of the New Cycle Time

Sometimes I get questions about the performance of the new work methods resulting from the application of the MDC.
These questions are as follows: How to monitor the performance of a new work method designed with MDC and manage the appr […]

Cost Improvement Targets Deployment: Preliminary Steps

The fundamental tasks of any manager are to continually understand the real situation of the company’s external and internal business environment, to identify the main issues alone, and to come up with solutions and to mobilize his/ her own staff, colleagues, su […]

Sales Decrease Scenario: Internal Target Profit by Minimizing Inputs

Over the life of each company, shorter or longer periods of decline in sales may occur. The causes of these decreases may be diverse from internal causes of the company (lower quality level, increased cost level, slowing innovation, unsynchronized proces […]

Sales Increase Scenario: External Target Profit by Maximizing Outputs

As it is easy to see lately, the business environment is increasingly challenging both inside and outside companies. However, the board of companies and top management teams must manage how to create business profit consistently.
As we already know, sus […]

Exegens® provides comprehensive employee training programs in order to achieve consistent fulfilment of company KPIs (Quality, Cost, Delivery, etc.). The Exegens® training program includes Productivity, Controlling, Automotive Core Tools and Strategy trainings.
The Exegens® team is coordinated by Dr. Alin Posteucă.
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In an economically slow growth environment, the continuous improvement of productivity is even more important for maintaining profits growth. Unfortunately, when it comes to achieving the annual improvement targets, most companies start too late, run too slow or never develop a consistent plan.
Planning and detailed implementation of the […]

The continuous measurement of the productivity level and strategic planning are essential to strengthening the continuous improvement culture. In this context, what do you think are the main challenges on continuous measurement of productivity (people, equipment, raw materials and materials, utilities)? Also, what are the main challenges […]