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Effective Manufacturing Operations Management in 2024

Epicflow

The Role of Operations Management in Manufacturing Industry Implementing operations management in manufacturing provides benefits that can significantly improve a manufacturing company’s overall performance and competitiveness. This leads to fewer defects, lower losses, and higher profits.

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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). There were rules.

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

Harvard Business

For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Raising the minimum wage won’t make any of these obstacles go away. Career paths.

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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. So, there’s a lot of tools and processes that need to be put in place.

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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. Now is the time to pick tooling that matches your service channels, style, and workflows. Involve your entire team in helping to solve customer problems.

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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. And when I left the Navy, I worked at a couple of commercial sites, and then for a couple OEMs, Westinghouse and GE. Charles Browne : Yeah, absolutely.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

A few people were hurt, team cooperation suffered and so did sales. Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. One manager was so flustered, he just knew this new tool would fail. Guess what? As a leader you can never participate in the gossip.