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Meet Me At MIX – Management Innovation eXchange

May 21, 2010
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If you want to be up on the latest in management trends and buzz, the place to be is at MIX, Gary Hamel’s latest website – a derivation from MLab I think. For those not aware of who Gary Hamel is, think modern day Drucker. MIX stands for Management Innovation eXchange, and the website is [...]

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Project Profile: Hospital ED Patient Flow

April 6, 2010
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Executive Summary – Patient Flow Improvement Cuts Length of Stay (LOS) As a management consultant, I worked with a client hospital emergency department to reduce Average Length of Stay by 10%. Specific improvements implemented include patient arrival time and volume modeling, aligned clinical team scheduling, standardized nurse / doctor communication practices, and innovative charge-nurse-esque patient [...]

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Project Profile: High Volume Food Manufacturing Throughput

March 15, 2010
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Executive Summary – Lean Implementation Saves Food Manufacturing Plant $800k/yr As a management consultant, I worked with a client food manufacturing plant to kick-start a stalling lean implementation. By focusing the effort on throughput at the constraint, lean methodologies such as 5S, Visual Management System, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), plant throughput skyrocketed nearly 60%. [...]

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Media Spin or Irrational Business?

January 31, 2010

I fell hook line and sinker for the title of this article: Steve Jobs Hates Eric Schmidt Unfortunately I think the author of the article did too… The article alleges that Apple may switch the iPhone’s search provider from Google to Microsoft because of a personal distaste of Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) toward Google – [...]

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Pillar of Operations Improvement – Management Tools

January 26, 2010
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This is the third of a four post series. You can read the first two posts here: 3 Pillars of Operations Improvement Pillar of Operations Improvement – Business Process Removing variation and waste from the process and balancing the process to optimize the constraint will improve the operation. However, where many businesses struggle in Operations [...]

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