Customer Compromises: Where Innovation Lives
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Customer Compromises: Where Innovation Lives
By: Admin
Your customers will spawn innovation if you are paying attention. If you are like many leaders, you remember the great new ideas that were early springboards for your company’s success. For some reason, however, your new products and services “pool” seems to have dried up over the years. What happened? Have you become less creative? Has your organization grown complacent and removed from customers and how your products are used? Perhaps you’ve just been looking in the wrong places.
This entry was posted in Manufacturing and Distribution, Market Effectiveness, Strategy 5.0, Weekend Thought, on February 27, 2015 -
Business Processes are Like Old Laws: They Never Go Away!
By: Jim Gitney
Laws are created to deal with a problem that exists today and may not exist years from now. Business processes are the same. They are created to deal with current needs. Over the years the legal system has accumulated a series of laws that may have been appropriate for their time but have never been abolished. Here are a few examples: …Read More This entry was posted in Business Transformation, Company Physical, Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing and Distribution, Value stream mapping, Weekend Thought, on February 21, 2015 -
Anti-Strategy: Is Your Company Guilty of It? – Part 1
By: Jim Gitney
Anti-Strategy is an interesting phenomenon. Have you ever wondered why someone in the company, a peer, a direct report or even the boss has done something that just didn’t make sense? Maybe it was reorganization, a change in product direction, adding new people that should be in other organizations, or worse yet, done nothing? Of course you have. You are probably guilty of it yourself, although you may not realize it or don’t want to admit it. Smart, successful and highly compensated people often do things that don’t seem to fit or support the program or your perspective of the direction of the company.This entry was posted in Anti-Strategy, Manufacturing and Distribution, Strategy 5.0, Weekend Thought, on January 10, 2015 -
Mexico – The New China
By: Admin
Forget everything you knew about Mexico vs. China 10 years ago. Significant changes in economics, infrastructure, geo-politics and cost have made Mexico the new China from a manufacturing and distribution stand point. See how much change there has been in the following presentation. These changes in cost will compel you to: …Read MoreThis entry was posted in Global Initiatives, Manufacturing and Distribution, Mexico, Supply Chain Optimization, on October 14, 2014 -
When Should A Company Adopt Mass Customization
By: Admin
An executive once asked “at what revenue level does it make sense to adopt mass customization to improve business execution?” From the perspective of manufacturing products, it is one thing to be a “customizer” and quite another to be a “mass customizer.” Here’s how business leaders need to think about this issue.
It is possible to produce customized products with inefficiencies that only grow as …Read More This entry was posted in Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing and Distribution, Strategy 5.0, Weekend Thought, on May 13, 2014 -
Tecma Talk Podcast Focuses on Total Cost of Ownership and Other Global Manufacturing Trends
By: Admin
EL PASO, Texas, April 28, 2014 /NEWS – The Tecma Group of companies recently recorded a podcast with the Los Angeles-based CEO of Group 50 Consulting, Jim Gitney, regarding the growing interest in the global manufacturing trends of total cost of ownership and nearshoring. During the approximately thirty minute session, Gitney explains how the industrial site selection process is no longer an exercise in chasing low manufacturing wages around the globe in order to determine which country, or countries to produce goods in. He asserts …Read More This entry was posted in Continuous Improvement, Global Initiatives, Manufacturing and Distribution, Mexico, News, Podcasts, Total Cost of Ownership, on April 29, 2014 -
Cost effective Manufacturing: Mexico vs. China
By: AdminRecently, we have completed some work for a client on the “total cost of ownership differences” in 89 countries. Our results indicated that Mexico is more cost effective than China is in many industries. Surprising results? Learn more in this TECMA podcast on Mexico vs. China manufacturing with Jim Gitney, the CEO of Group50.
If you prefer reading a transcript of the interview, you can …Read More This entry was posted in Global Initiatives, Manufacturing and Distribution, Mexico, Podcasts, Supply Chain Optimization, Total Cost of Ownership, on April 18, 2014
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Total Cost of Ownership For Manufacturing and Distribution
By: Admin
The Tecma Group of companies recently recorded a podcast with the Los Angeles-based president and CEO of Group 50 consulting, Jim Gitney, regarding current global manufacturing trends, such as Total Cost of Ownership, the growing interest in the concepts of “total cost of ownership” and “nearshoring.”
During the approximately thirty minute session, Gitney, explains how …Read More This entry was posted in Continuous Improvement, Global Initiatives, Manufacturing and Distribution, Supply Chain Optimization, Total Cost of Ownership, on April 4, 2014 -
Business Hierarchy Of Needs
By: Jim Gitney
Achieve Excellence with the Business Hierarchy of Needs®
A Proven Framework for Strategic Execution and Change Management
Why do some organizations achieve sustained success while others “stop short” of excellence? The answer lies in their approach to strategic execution. …Read More
This entry was posted in Business Hierarchy of Needs®, Business Transformation, Company Physical, Continuous Improvement, Global Initiatives, M&A, Manufacturing and Distribution, Organizational Development, Strategy 5.0, on April 29, 2013 -
When Is The Best Time To Do Make vs. Buy?
By: Admin
I was recently speaking with a client about Make vs. Buy. We were discussing when the appropriate time was for doing that kind of analysis. The natural assumption is that world class organizations are doing that kind of analysis whenever a new product program or a major new contract is being worked on. It should be part of every analysis to provide continuous feedback to the Manufacturing organization and the business’s executives. Make vs. Buy analysis will tell you …Read MoreThis entry was posted in Continuous Improvement, Global Initiatives, Manufacturing and Distribution, Mexico, Supply Chain Optimization, Total Cost of Ownership, on April 19, 2013
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