Tag Archive for 'Team Development'

The Value of Work Teams

In today’s business environment we continually hear about companies restructuring more of their organization’s employees into work teams. This includes the use of teams in …

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Business Turnaround Basics – Understanding the Real Cost of Factory Overhead

In today’s businesses, manufacturing overhead is often a major portion of product costs. There are two elements to overhead – variable and fixed costs. In …

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Business Turnaround Basics – Understanding the Real Cost of Labor

In today’s business environment, labor is much lower as a total percent of sales than it was several decades ago. I can remember in the …

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Retail Product Manufacturing Business

The Challenge: This was a $25M machining and assembly division that was experiencing high operating losses, providing poor customer service and suffering market share loss. …

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Distribution and Manufacturing Business

The Challenge: A $50M distribution and manufacturing business was capacity constrained because of floor space, in-house truck body manufacturing, and the specialized job skills of …

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