Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained

As a Continuous Improvement expert, I’m a control freak big fan of data. I wholeheartedly believe that you can’t create lasting improvements without 1 - benchmarking and 2 -understanding the context in which the data was derived. But despite the fact that you can quantify nearly every aspect of a process in its current state, when making projections about the future state, stakeholders must understand that even highly detailed projections [...]

2025-11-27T01:48:40-05:00May 27th, 2016|Comments Off on Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained

Rethinking Reshoring

Kudos to the Reshoring Initiative @ReshoreNow  and @harrymoser for recognition of their efforts to bolster American manufacturing. Though there are at times strategic benefits to outsourcing/off-shoring, I’ve seen this approach to cost savings too often put to premature use. Labor costs, as a growing number of manufacturers worldwide now understand, is just part of the equation.    The value of cost savings gained through lower labor rates must also be measured [...]

2014-05-21T23:45:33-04:00May 22nd, 2014|Comments Off on Rethinking Reshoring
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