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Blog posts February 2004

How do you make sure that your operations are as good as they can be? Go out and buy a "best of breed" software or hire a consultant to compare your processes to your competitors? Although I haven't heard as much about "Best Practices" recently, there still seems to be the philosophy around to t...

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Smart Decisions

Today's manufacturing environment is challenging. There is becoming less and less margin for error in decisions. How do you make the best decisions possible? With the best information possible. I was re-reading an interview in "Intelligent Enterprise" magazine with Doug Anderson, who is the CIO ...

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Robert Malone's column in the latest issue of Managing Automation (full article here) discusses how our sense of urgency about our particular tasks can cancel out the big picture view. In these days of needing distinctiveness to differentiate products, loosing a big picture view can prove tragic...

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