Never let a serious crisis go to waste In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on November 19,2008, Rahm Emanuel was quoted as saying; “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before.” This sent a shockwave through the world’s financial system of such magnitude that its depth, breadth, and speed found the world’s financiers and governments on their back-foot, scrambling to catch-up and hoping to get ahead of it. The response was sometimes coordinated, but too often disjointed. |
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People-Centric Digitalization Technology is everywhere; pervasive and inescapable. Intended to make lives and work easier, less boring, and safer, while simultaneously accelerating the ways we interact with one another and doing business. But as with the introduction of anything “new”, there is a level of anxiety that is felt by the people the technology will touch. It’s a difficult balance. And if the balance is not achieved, the people will be resistant. In the process industry, fewer people are required to produce ever more product. It’s not that there are fewer employees on the shop floor. Rather, the increases in efficiencies and capacity of the production equipment – combined with the automation of many processes and operations – is resulting in greater production per person. In a word, “productivity”. ation and it being received in a timely and complete manner. |
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Lean Busy vs Ignorant Overload Bliss One of the biggest challenges of a Lean Transformation is to create the ‘Vision of Excellence’; what should we aim to achieve over the coming years, what is possible?
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Our guest for this edition shares the experiences and wisdom he has gained from his over 20 years in a variety of business; from his beginnings at GE to his present role at Cigna. In particular we explore how his dual Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Psychology were particularly useful in getting individuals to work better in teams. |
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Episode 48 – Robots, Beer, Cash for Consultants, & Team Effectiveness. Topic:
This session starts off serious with Antlerboy sharing some rather serious endeavors he is launching. But the guests (mercifully) come to visit and breathe life back into the conversation with talks of; robot competitions, beer (again), heaps of cash for consultants in the UK, and the tragedy of a video being removed from YouTube causing one of our guests to actually do work. . Click to Listen Now!
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“So – Are you telling me you’re going out of business…?” This is a question that I recently felt compelled to flat-out ask a COO of a publicly traded Fortune 500 company in response to a series of comments he made to me during an interview. His shocked response was, “Of course not…!” There was obviously a disconnect someplace. |
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