Quotes About Performance

No," he says. "Through sales— not production. If you produce something, but don't sell it, it's not throughput. Got it?

Check your numbers if you'd like," says Jonah. "But if your inventories haven't gone down . . . and your employee expense was not reduced . . . and if your company isn't selling more products—which obviously it can't, if you're not shipping more of them—then you can't tell me these robots increased your plant's productivity.

that's a third assumption that's wrong," I say. "We've assumed that utilization and activation are the same. Activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.

Bottlenecks temporarily limit throughput. Maybe your plant is proof of that. But they have little impact upon inventory." "It's completely the opposite, Hilton," I say. "Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory. And I'll tell you what my plant really has shown: it's proved our performance measurements are wrong.

When you are productive you are accomplishing something in terms of your goal

productividad es el acto de acercar a la empresa a su meta. Las acciones que acercan a una compañía a su meta son productivas. Las acciones que no acercan a la compañía a su meta no son productivas.

bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that

Producing a quality product efficiently: that must be the goal. It sure sounds good. "Quality and efficiency." Those are two nice words. Kind of like "Mom and apple pie.

the goal is to make money, then (putting it in terms Jonah might have used), an action that moves us toward making money is productive. And an action that takes away from making money is non-productive.

All this is, if I understand it correctly, is a different way of doing the accounting. All employee time—whether it's direct or indirect, idle time or operating time, or whatever—is operational expense, according to Jonah. You're still accounting for it. It's just that his way is simpler, and you don't have to play as many games.

La meta sigue siendo la misma, pero podemos expresarla de otra forma, y que signifique lo mismo que esas dos palabras: "ganar dinero". -Bien

productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal.

We need financial measurements for sure—but we don't need them for their own sake. We need them for two different reasons. One is control; knowing to what extent a company is achieving its goal of making money. The other reason is probably even more important; measurements should induce the parts to do what's good for the organization as a whole.

Increase throughput while simultaneously reducing both inventory and operating expense.

So the way to express the goal is this? Increase throughput while simultaneously reducing both inventory and operating expense.

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Baines will perform his Black Mass in front of my witness, and I shall own him.

Danilaw Bakare was on a nightclub stage when the world ended.

I would back away growling. Wer I not a man. Or the masquerade of one.

I would back away growling. Were I not a man. Or the masquerade of one.

He coded like some people danced, glitter-eyed concentration and confident grace and never a hesitation.