Transformation to High Performance

Measuring the High Performance Enterprise. Slide presentation addressing measures for high-performance enterprises at different levels of the enterprise: results, products, processes and know-how.

Commitment to Strategy

Business Plan Budgeting. Techniques and tips for expressing your business plan in numbers.

Improvement Plan

Value Stream Mapping. An explanation of this basic technique for identifying opportunities for improving processes.

Value Stream Mapping for Administrative Functions. As you improve factory floor operations, you can also improve front-office and back-office processes. Here are some tips for developing value stream maps for administrative functions.

Execute Improvement

Lean Manufacturing and Your Bottom Line. A description of all the major lean manufacturing techniques and tools, and how they affect a company's financial statements.

Transformation Tips for Printers. Printers can transform into high-performance enterprises, too! Here are six concrete ideas for printers to boost profitability, growth, productivity and improvement.

Additional reading. A summer reading list! Read one of these books every month, and you'll be a transformation expert in two years!