Publications

The catalyst of cheaper labor costs overseas has decoupled Product Design from Production. Products are no longer designed with ‘simplicity’ and 'manufacturability' as critical criteria, and as a result, the jobs keep moving overseas. Innovative product simplification is the redesign of products for simpler and cheaper manufacturing. The cheaper the production costs, the easier and more profitable it is to produce domestically, offering businesses the viability of bring jobs home and enriching the domestic economy ...
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Imagine taking a distance measurement without a tape measure. Your measurements would be off most of the time. Similarly, without a solid framework for prioritizing projects, the project environment will always seem like a landscape of shifting priorities. Like a tape measure employs a system of agreed upon units—inches, centimeters, or feet—your prioritization scale must follow an agreed upon system of measurement. This greatly improves project prioritization and completion rates ...
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Empowerment is Knowledge-backed Authority: Knowledge to make sound decisions and Authority to take action. One without the other leads to incomplete empowerment and dwindling innovative capability. Managed well a truly empowered workforce delivers innovation on demand and is able to solve highly complex problems ...
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Growth brings with it increasing business complexity. Restructuring the organization in an attempt to manage the growing workload only compounds the problem. A proactive, aggressive Business Simplification initiative must be executed to sustain growth. Process Simplification, Product Simplification, and Organization Simplification yield tandem, multi-layered benefits and the capacity to sustain a steep growth trajectory ...
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True Leaders achieve objectives by empowering their people and creating other Leaders around them. Leadership is about confidence and humility. Confidence is gained through knowledge, insight, and experience. Humility is gained through maturity and practice. There are 4 leadership personas, each possessing advantages and a disadvantages. Know when to draw on each persona to become a true and great leader ...
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In a time of shorter product lifespans and a rapidly emerging sharing economy, customers care about Consumption Efficiency more than ever. What happens to your products after they are delivered to your customers? How efficiently can customers unpack, use, store, and eventually discard your product? Your customers care about better product Usage and less Waste. You should too! ...
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CUSTOMERS disrupt markets by adopting new products, services, or business models. Do not underestimate this perspective. Strong-arming, cornering, or locking your customers into contracts, albeit common practice today, enriches the arena for market disruption. Invest the effort (and sacrifice) into continually offering greater value to your customers and they will hold the market for you or disrupt it in your favor ...
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