Business Management - Productivity/Process Improvement

If you are struggling with disorder in your business or your home, I suggest you look into the "5s" program, a system of cleaning taught in lean management.

Having a higher calling and purpose than just making money should be important when we ponder our lives and contributions. My former boss and mentor Bill McIntyre was instrumental in developing a very concise mission statement for our company back in the early 1990’s. It is: To Enhance the Value of the Businesses We Serve. To us, it means much more than making money.

The definition of "entropy" is...the predisposition of all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of chaos; the inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or entity. Does that sound like YOUR business these days?

Custom book publishing reaches targeted customers by delivering content that links with their needs, interests, and lifestyles.

Attend this webinar to learn about new industry trends and how new plate options can reduce time and money spent in prepress.

How much of your MIS (Management Information System) have you implemented in your business? This is your Estimating, Job Tracking, Finished Goods, Floor Data Collection, etc., software. If you are like most businesses you implemented less than 20 percent of the software's capabilities.

For those of you who have asked for more detail about systemizing your company—particularly your SCHEDULING system—HERE IT IS! Hope you “wing and a prayer” people will lean in!

Users share how they combined color management methodologies with high levels of automation to drive business profitability.

Insisting that certain people adopt a "new and better way" of doing something can actually make a situation worse. To cure your business, heed advice from a first century physician named Luke, about the consequences of pouring NEW wine into OLD wineskins.

Folks, there is a way to do the THAT's in life and business, which owners and managers should do. However, I'm a witness to THIS fact—you will never get to all the THAT's unless you do THIS! Got it? Good!