Case Study: An Ontario Regulating Body
The Challenge: The small department was responsible for coordinating onsite inspections and keeping track of certification statuses within a highly regulated healthcare sector. There were 5 staff members and a manager who had all recently started working remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions. Staff frustration levels were extremely high as evidenced by an inordinate number of...Continue reading→
Lean Startup Strike… er…Experiment 1
And the results are in. The following Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been tallied: Business Leaders Support Group: Direct emails: 85 Total Tweets: 39 Total Re-Tweets: 2 Total Favorites: 45 Total Mentions: 2 Total Linkedin Posts: 1 Total Linkedin Responses: 3 TOTAL PAYING ATTENDEES: 0 2 Days a Month: Total Requests for Proposals: 1 Total...Continue reading→
Low Cost of Capital, Low Chance of Lean
This will be short and sweet. I was having a conversation with the CEO of a major food producer recently. We talked about what he needed to do in order to start to turn his company Lean. During our conversation it became clear that excess inventory, both raw materials and finished goods was a major...Continue reading→