Have you ever assented to a decision you privately disagreed with? It happens all the time…

“My team members give different answers when I ask them what success for the project means.”

You’ve heard, “Good, fast, cheap. Choose 2.” This is the Iron Triangle. Learn how the Liberty Ship - the most repeated capital project of all time debunked this triangle.

“There’s no such thing as a stupid question”. You have probably heard that sentence before, maybe from a teacher or professor, encouraging you to raise your hand and participate in class. The concept of asking “stupid questions” doesn’t always resonate outside of the classroom.

Optimization and improvement are very different activities. Optimization is about playing within the known constraints as best one can. Improvement, on the other hand, is about breaking through these constraints to reach a much higher level of performance.

Our infographic displays the various stages of maturity for a Management Operating System. Knowing where you lie on the curve is the first step in furthering your improvement capabilities. Each category lays out four characteristics that will help you assess where your organization lies on the curve. Once you know where you are on the curve and what lies ahead, you can begin to create a plan for how to shift to the right on the diagram.

Learn the difference between Zero-Based Budgeting and Zero-Based Analysis and how to apply both to you next project.

Working in silos can case mismanagement across plans resulting in literal gaps in engineering designs. What often goes unseen is how these silos leave hidden opportunity.

Do you hate to lose $10? Does it ruin your entire day? This is because losses hurt 2x as much as gains make you feel good. It is called loss aversion and could be holding back your project team.

An ideal MOS is a structure that helps you choose top opportunities to work on, and then helps you realize these opportunities as quickly as possible. We’ve developed a short MOS quiz for leaders to understand their organizational capabilities for the five key components of a successful Management Operating System.

Many companies are unknowingly leaving behind valuable opportunities as they try to navigate the complexities of net weights regulations. How familiar are you with the laws around net weight control?

This 5 min rapid quiz will let you assess your net weights program to see how much hidden opportunity you have!

Budget season is upon us and the COVID pandemic is sure to complicate the process. After working to keep employees safe while operating, slow/pause operations that saw demand plummet, and ramp up production of critical items, companies must now also return to the work of saving money.

Have you ever wondered how the news networks are able to call the outcome of an election when only a tiny fraction of the votes have been tallied? For those of you in food & beverage manufacturing, the process used is quite similar to the way a department of weights and measures inspector looks for underweight product in a retail store.

Have you ever peeked behind the counter at Starbucks and seen the screen that the drive through “operator” has in front of them? This screen has four big numbers on it. Two of these are the time the car has been at the window and the time since it placed its order. These two numbers help the Starbucks employee know how they are doing keeping the drive through line moving.

As a leader, your people will likely come and tell you they have solved a problem that has been plaguing your business. What they may mean, however, is that they have fixed it. Just because a problem goes away or is not occurring anymore does not mean that it has been solved.