Your leadership team approves the plan. The meeting ends. By the following week, different functions are making decisions that pull the business in different directions. Before adding another strategy presentation, test what each leader understood. In a recent LinkedIn post, Izzy Galicia proposes a simple exercise: give every leader a sticky note and one minute …
A growth plan can look clear in the boardroom and become ambiguous by the time it reaches the people responsible for delivering it. One business unit prioritizes volume. Another protects margin. Sales commits to a delivery date that operations cannot reliably support. Each team has a rationale, but the organization still struggles to move in …
A huddle is useful only if it changes what happens next Manufacturing teams do not need another meeting that reports yesterday’s numbers, explains every problem in detail, or ends without an owner. A tiered huddle has a narrower purpose: make abnormal conditions visible, decide what the team can address now, and move unresolved constraints quickly …
Autonomous maintenance is not maintenance without technicians Autonomous maintenance is one of the most misunderstood parts of Total Productive Maintenance. It does not mean asking operators to repair equipment they are not qualified to repair. It does not eliminate the maintenance function. And it does not begin by handing the production team another checklist. Autonomous …
Imagine you are running a $1 billion organization with a credible path to $3 billion over the next five years. Demand is there, the market opportunity is there, and your growth strategy is working. But supporting that growth requires you to move quickly, and you may need additional capacity, new geographic coverage, specialized capabilities, new …
Announced U.S. factory projects total over $430B, and the technicians to run them are scarce. How to recover capacity and protect ramp output without hiring.