Posts Tagged ‘the balanced scorecard’

The Wall Street Journal article “Yes, Everyone Really Does Hate Performance Reviews” provided some very good points. The article, for example, stated performance reviews are: – a sham that is most insidious and damaging but yet a ubiquitous corporate activity. – a primary tool for reinforcing sorry state. – really relative to how well the [...]

Often organizations are attempting to mimic the Toyota Production System (TPS) without achieving the success that Toyota has received. These companies are finding that their most of their kaizen improvement activities are not positively impacting the overall corporate financials. For example, Delphi winning many Shingo Prizes but still has financial difficulties. Described later is a [...]

In A Management Philosopher With Heady Ideas About Beer, Stephen Miller wrote in the Wall Street Journal how Russell Ackoff was an evangelist of the big picture who as a management theorist helped U.S. corporations with the challenges for restructuring opportunities. Russell Ackoff died Oct 29, 2009 at the age of 90. He was considered [...]

QUESTION: I’m currently working for one of the Biggest Government Owned Manufacturing-Agro-Industry-Trading Holding Company (BUMN) that manage 15 subsidiary companies as IT Solution Architect and ICT Advisor. I’m assisting the Corporate Decision Makers and the CIO to establish the Integrated Information System, Business Intelligence (BI) and the Business Process Management (BPM). So far that I’ve [...]

QUESTION: We want to kickstart Office Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in our company which is the 8th pillar of TPM..If anybody can share their Best Practices and also can help me in getting a good study material/Good Books on Office TPM RESPONSE: An enhanced business management system that addresses these potential issues are addressed in: [...]