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Effective Manufacturing Operations Management in 2024

Epicflow

Process control. Process control involves the use of sensors, automation, and various control systems to monitor and control manufacturing processes and ensure they operate within specified parameters and maintain consistent product quality and production efficiency. Reporting and performance analysis.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

Productivity (revenue divided by expense) increased by 20% year over year (far more than the 9% increase in revenue that the control group stores averaged); customer satisfaction increased by 11% (the control group saw it decrease by 4%); and sales increased by 8% (the control group saw only a 2% increase).

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

As one of us has witnessed first-hand while working at a large retailer, even highly skilled and motivated workers will not be able to be as productive as expected because the company’s operational systems got in their way, wasting rather than maximizing their skills and enthusiasm. Career paths.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. Invest in permanent systems.

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Gorillas in our Midst

Tom Spencer

We are bombarded with information at all times and it simply isn’t possible for the human brain to process it all. While they were focusing on CD sales and law suits, Apple came along and launched the iTunes Music Store, which is now the world’s largest music retailer with revenues exceeding $12 billion per year.

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How to Discover and Own Your Consulting Superpower: Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. So, you really need to start to systemize what you do, and how you do it, even the innovation. I want to go in there and solve the problems.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. But what I really enjoyed doing was – I’m really kind of that in-between guy.