Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – March 2019

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – March 2019

March 2019 Monthly Musing   Why do we assume more words, and a more complex vocabulary is better?  Why should we write a 500-word essay when 150-words (or fewer) will get the same information across?  Many problems could be avoided if we just learned to communicate in a plain manner so as to be easily…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – February 2019

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – February 2019

February 2019 Monthly Musing   February is the nastiest month of the year.  The warmth of the holidays and joyous gatherings with friends and family are gone – all that is left as evidence that they happened at all are the bills and a few photographs.  It is biting cold.  The kind of cold that…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2019

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – January 2019

January 2019         Monthly Musing   By now, most of us have made and broken our “New Year’s Resolutions”.  But I recently came across the idea of a “dream-map” which might prove to be more useful.  It’s similar to an A4 exercise found in Lean.  But instead of being forensic and detailed,…

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2018

Operational Excellence by Design eNewsletter – December 2018

A Year in Review December 2018     Message from the Founder As we complete another circuit around the sun, we find ourselves reflective of the year’s hard-fought battles won and lost, of loves arrived and departed, and of our professional successes and disappointments.  With rebuilding spirit and energy, we look with great anticipation to…