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Not all markets are good markets for you. Not all customers are good customers for you. And not all orders are good orders for you.How do you recognize the distinctions beforehand? And how do you fire a customer once you’ve already accepted them?A good customer for you is not the
Every one of your employees must clearly see how his actions and decisions impact execution of the business strategy. This is accomplished through a line-of-sight deployment process.It is not enough to describe the strategy at an all-hands meeting, or even add to that the down-one-level strategy. Stopping the formal deployment
No manufacturer can afford to ignore the concept of Digital Transformation. Yes, there continues some small need for manual lathes, but don’t plan your future on that.In the past several editions of this podcast I discussed several business-side categories of digital transformation, from machine health to connected employees to using
We’d love to know of any problems with incoming supplies in time to either fix them, or make them irrelevant to our needs today. But most of us live in the world of surprises and reactions.Think of the airport control tower. They can’t afford to have a plane show up
Prior podcasts have introduced the digital transformation business categories of “machine health” and “connected employees.” In this episode we discuss “smart products.”Some manufacturing products are easy to visualize as electronic sources of volumes of data; others, not so much. Yet a significant portion of the products developed, manufactured, sold and/or