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Does Your Strategic Planning Process Incorporate Customer Value?

Luminas Strategy

Strategic planning is a common organizational practice that, when done properly, will increase the likelihood that an organization will meet its goals. The authors emphasize answering the first question with real and unvarnished honesty about the organization’s strengths and weaknesses. What is a credible path to get there?

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Optimizing Processes Through Lean Management [How-To] | KaiNexus

Kainexus

Lean management is a systematic approach to eliminating waste and optimizing processes to maximize efficiency, improve quality, and enhance customer value. It originated in manufacturing but has since been applied to various industries and sectors.

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4 Ways to Impact Price Realization

Holden Advisors

Transaction level or sales data analysis is a gold standard that we conduct with almost every customer. In a recent pricing project with a technology hardware manufacturer, we carefully created a baseline product segmentation to better understand a discounting problem. This ensured that analysis was being applied at the correct level.

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How is the Lean Methodology Practiced in Healthcare?

Kainexus

The Lean methodology is a set of practices and tools that business leaders initially developed to help manufacturing organizations improve quality and become more efficient. The benefits of Lean management are not confined to manufacturing. For many reasons, Lean has been particularly embraced by healthcare organizations.

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Lean Management: Definition, Principles, and Techniques

Kainexus

Lean management, also called Lean manufacturing, or just Lean, is a business methodology that helps organizations reach their most critical strategic objectives. Although it started in manufacturing, Lean management is now used by organizations of all types and sizes.

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Business Model Innovation (BMI): Business Model Journey

Flevy

In fact, if executed successfully, Business Model Transformation can make organizations resilient in the face of Disruption and create Growth unbounded by the limitations of its businesses. In other words, it is our offering that helps customers to more effectively, conveniently, and/or affordably do a job they’ve been trying to do.

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Equipped for the Inevitable: The Owens Corning Story

Luminas Strategy

Based in Toledo, Ohio, Owens Corning — a leading manufacturer since 1938 — is known for its entrepreneurial spirit, focus and thirst for being better. Building materials manufacturers would die for that kind of brand recognition. In 2009, when the bottom fell out of the housing market, building materials manufacturers were hit hard.