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Effective Manufacturing Operations Management in 2024

Epicflow

There’s one more essential component that helps manufacturers reach their goals — manufacturing operations management (MOM). What Is Manufacturing Operations Management? Manufacturing operations management (MOM) is the practice of overseeing and improving manufacturing processes at multiple levels. Supply chain management.

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Transform Business Operations with Process Mining

Harvard Business

The most effective companies we interviewed use process mining to generate operational insights at scale, identify process inefficiencies, define targeted actions, and measure process improvements — all of which lead to value realization. It is often a major cultural change to fully embrace this level of process management.

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How to Uncover the Root Cause of Poor Performance

Consulting Matters

Are they informed about how they are doing? Are tools and equipment operative? Is necessary information available? Is information accurate? Provide training (formal or informal). Document Operating Guidelines. Are measurements based on task performance? Are the outcomes of the task measured? Measurement.

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Become a Sponge: Seek Out and Soak Up Information

Tom Spencer

According to Balter, a sponge is someone who tirelessly seeks out and absorbs new information. By employing these strange metaphors, Balter was trying to highlight how hard some individuals are willing to work to seek out, absorb, and use new information to gain an advantage and break through barriers. They read voraciously.

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7 Traits that Make You Instantly Credible with Senior Leaders

Consulting Matters

Can recommend solutions that consider the realities of the formal and informal power networks. Understands how the culture and power networks operate within the client system. Helps clients anticipate the Customer/Client, Employee, and Financial/Operational impact of business decisions. Political Savvy. Proactive Advocacy.

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Book review: "Steady Work," by Karen Gaudet

Markovitz Consulting

when the lean operating system she helped install enabled the staff at the Starbucks stores around Newtown, CT manage the chaos and trauma around the Newtown massacre. So, an initiative that was intended to create a consistent experience for the customer was actually creating slightly different operations in every store.

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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. They also publish information from partners including their backgrounds and expertise. Image: Pexels The post Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms first appeared on Tom Spencer.