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I know a successful global corporation where the Employee Engagement scores consistently range between 20 to 30 percent, and sometimes reach 40. Whatever new training or policies they institute, Engagement stays stuck. However, one division has Engagement scores in the 90s. No one elsewhere understands, even when it is explained to them. What’s present in the one division that’s…
Realizing the Value in Business Processes
I had a very busy May with speaking engagements at the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) NJ Due Diligence Conference followed by the ACG-NY Manufacturing & Logistics Conference and wrapping it up by delivering a paper on Operational Excellence at the Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference in Vancouver. The underlying theme of all…
Government; Has the need but lacks the will, even the want.
In a global marketplace, companies have a primal motivation for continually improving the value-proposition of their offering. They have to outpace the competition and offer more and more, for less and less, otherwise risk losing the customer. To meet these demands of the customer requires that companies constantly seek to increase the velocity of throughput…
Redefining the role of the leader in the reskilling era
For individuals and organizations to get ahead and stay ahead there must be a culture of continuous learning in the workplace. For leaders, this creates a new set of challenges and further demands as they effectively take on a new and slightly unfamiliar role of Learning facilitator-in-chief. McKinsey discusses, delves into and begins to define…
Master Class in Emerson Core Values – Living the Culture at RIDGID
I’ve worked for some great companies, including four Fortune 500 corporations. Along the way I met outstanding management teams. However, one team stood out in my mind above all others, the Emerson Electric, (RIDGID) Sales and Marketing Management Team, they are the prime example in my career of a company who lived their parent company’s…
Artificial Intelligence and Continuous Improvement
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly impact the field of continuous improvement by providing organizations with new tools and techniques to identify and eliminate waste and improve performance. Some ways that AI can be used in continuous improvement include: It is worth mentioning that AI is not a silver bullet, the success of…