Quotes About Strategy

And he's saying, "Alex, I have come to the conclusion that productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

What are we asking for? For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager. Think about it. If a manager doesn't know how to answer those three questions, is he or she entitled to be called manager?

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

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

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Quality alone cannot be the goal. It's important. But it's not the goal.

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.

You forced us to view production as a means to satisfy sales. I want to change the role production is playing in getting sales.

utilizing" a resource means making use of the resource in a way that moves the system toward the goal. "Activating" a resource is like pressing the ON switch of a machine; it runs whether or not there is any benefit to be derived from the work it's doing. So, really, activating a non-bottleneck to its maximum is an act of maximum stupidity.

If you produce something, but don't sell it, it's not throughput

Just remember we are always talking about the organization as a whole—not about the manufacturing department, or about one plant, or about one department within the plant. We are not concerned with local optimums.

But when the nature of the constraint has changed, one would expect to see a major change in the way we operate all non-constraints.

If we cut our batch sizes in half, then I guess that at any one time we'd have half the work-in-process on the floor. I guess that means we'd only need half the investment in work-in-process to keep the plant working. If we could work it out with our vendors, we could conceivably cut all our inventories in half, and by cutting our inventories in half, we reduce the amount of cash tied up at any one time, which eases the pressure on cash flow.

sit there marveling that we're going to reduce the efficiency of some operations and make the entire plant more productive.

I sit there marveling that we're going to reduce the efficiency of some operations and make the entire plant more productive.

I've got the machines. I've got the people. I've got all the materials I need. I know there's a market out there, because the competitors' stuff is selling. So what the hell is it?

The above doesn't mean that, for environments in which the assumptions of Lean are not valid, fragments of Lean cannot be used

Her Design was once more to engage him, to hear him sigh, to see him languish, to feel the strenuous Pressures of his eager Arms, to be compelled, to be sweetly forc'd to what she wished with equal Ardour, was what she wanted, and what she had form'd a Stratagem to obtain, in which she promis'd herself Success. SHE

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.