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...
HRM Strategy: Performance Management and Expectancy Theory
2015-09-20Operations, Talents, Culture, HR, PerformanceRunning 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...
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...
More with Less: Getting More from Existing Operations
2015-09-12Excellence, Operations, Change, Kaizen, LeanThe 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...
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...
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 delive...