Patrick Lencioni argues in his book The Advantage that “being smart is only half the equation in a successful organisation“. The other half of the equation, the one that is largely neglected, is about being healthy. SMART organisations e...
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Manufacturing is changing Some call it the emergence of next-generation manufacturing which is likely to lead to a new industrial revolution, a.k.a. industry 4.0. What will be the human-machine interactions in context of the new manufact...
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Professionals involved in innovation often claim to prefer agile rather than waterfall – which is synonym of bureaucracy and hindrance to creativity. There is a common perception that waterfall is about structure and sequencing logic, wh...
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Running a successful and growing business depends on the ability of the organization to react and be proactive in developing its assets including its employees. Human Resource Management (HRM) is essential for achieving organisational ob...
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are like the ‘central nervous system‘ of the organization, providing the ‘sensory‘ input to management – so that they understand what is happening with their finances, employees, suppliers and...
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The world of Manufacturing has moved from 1) craft manufacturing, 2) mass production, to 3) modern Manufacturing – which replaced the mass production paradigm with a combination of: Flexible specialization – leveraging open innovation an...
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Discussions about Engineering & Design (E&D) Return on Investment (RoI) among manufacturing industry executives often turn to engineering productivity. A far more important metric is perhaps engineering throughput combined with cycle tim...
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Every (manufacturing) organization creating products or delivering engineering or IT-related services is managing a portfolio of projects (whether it is done formally or not, in a manual or semi-automated way). Project success and deliv...
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India became a ‘hot cluster’ for global OEMs and obviously Tata benefited from this attractive economic expansion. For a global consulting and Engineering organizations, the risk can be to over-standardize its offering and rationaliz...
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At its simplest program management can be defined as ‘a group of projects managed together for added benefits’. Both projects and programs can be seen as a vehicle for organizational learning. This post discusses guidelines on the purpos...
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