David K. Schneider, Author at Operational Excellence Society

Unpacking Packaging Costs

ByDavid K. Schneider May 22, 2019May 30, 2019

Packaging is everywhere. Almost everything that we buy comes packaged in some form. New cars are packaged in protective films for transport. The jeans on the store shelf came in a corrugated paperboard box. Even the fresh fruit at the farmer’s market arrived in a box, and you took it home in a bag. The…

Body of Knowledge

More Data is not Good

ByDavid K. Schneider March 9, 2015November 10, 2016

“Managing by the Numbers” is a tired phrase. Really, it is. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” is a phrase that we all hear, and we all say it like a prayer that a nun murmurs while counting rosary beads. Many people argue about who said it first, Peter Drucker or Edward Deming. We…

Author: David K. Schneider