How to Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 3
The way purchases are made — and how vendors are held accountable — are strategic decisions.
About Customer Service
The more profitable business decision every time is to spend the few extra dollars that it takes to provide superior customer service.
How To Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 2
It’s crucial to track the purchases of your customers, and to understand their purchasing strategies, or your business may be devoured by the Anaconda.
How To Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 1
A purchasing culture that does not live by the principles of Lean, and depends on long, thin supply chains, can kill a business.
Pinch Hit for Pareto
Major league baseball misuses the 80/20 rule, suggesting heretical potential changes on extra-inning games, which might drive length of extra-inning games but not affect other games.
Akron’s Economy is Seeing a Nice Rebound
Ned Hill, A One-Handed Economist, believes Akron is okay. John Augustine, chief investment officer of Huntington Bank's private client group agrees.
Time for New Information Technology?
Legacy Information Technology (IT) often makes a digitized supply chain difficult or impossible. It also hurts manufacturers’ abilities to adopt new technologies.
Balanced Roles: The Owl & The Pussycat
Are you the owl or the pussycat? Either is fine – having both in your organization is ideal – but being aware of the importance of balanced roles in any business is critical.
Ohio Business Waiting And Watching For Trump Moves On NAFTA
National Public Radio's IdeaStream interviewed Ned Hill, A One-Handed Economist, on the affect of Trump's proposed changes to NAFTA on business in Ohio.
Supply-Chain Traceability is Vital
Manufacturers have always been only as good (or bad) as their supply-chain. Today, traceability rules and problems trickle downstream.
Thought Leadership: Newbies and Imbeciles
Stand out from the crowd by focusing on making your thought leadership three things: Intriguing, In-depth, and Independent. Also: don’t be an Idiot.
Presidents and the Economy: Reflections Post President’s Day
Presidents who shaped American economic development needed both opportunity and action—any list of economic greats will be controversial.
How to Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 3
The way purchases are made — and how vendors are held accountable — are strategic decisions.
About Customer Service
The more profitable business decision every time is to spend the few extra dollars that it takes to provide superior customer service.
How To Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 2
It’s crucial to track the purchases of your customers, and to understand their purchasing strategies, or your business may be devoured by the Anaconda.
How To Keep Your Supply Chain From Killing You, Part 1
A purchasing culture that does not live by the principles of Lean, and depends on long, thin supply chains, can kill a business.
Pinch Hit for Pareto
Major league baseball misuses the 80/20 rule, suggesting heretical potential changes on extra-inning games, which might drive length of extra-inning games but not affect other games.
Akron’s Economy is Seeing a Nice Rebound
Ned Hill, A One-Handed Economist, believes Akron is okay. John Augustine, chief investment officer of Huntington Bank's private client group agrees.
Time for New Information Technology?
Legacy Information Technology (IT) often makes a digitized supply chain difficult or impossible. It also hurts manufacturers’ abilities to adopt new technologies.
Balanced Roles: The Owl & The Pussycat
Are you the owl or the pussycat? Either is fine – having both in your organization is ideal – but being aware of the importance of balanced roles in any business is critical.
Ohio Business Waiting And Watching For Trump Moves On NAFTA
National Public Radio's IdeaStream interviewed Ned Hill, A One-Handed Economist, on the affect of Trump's proposed changes to NAFTA on business in Ohio.
Supply-Chain Traceability is Vital
Manufacturers have always been only as good (or bad) as their supply-chain. Today, traceability rules and problems trickle downstream.
Thought Leadership: Newbies and Imbeciles
Stand out from the crowd by focusing on making your thought leadership three things: Intriguing, In-depth, and Independent. Also: don’t be an Idiot.
Presidents and the Economy: Reflections Post President’s Day
Presidents who shaped American economic development needed both opportunity and action—any list of economic greats will be controversial.