Measuring the High Performance Enterprise. Highlights the four key measures for high-performance enterprises: Profit, Growth, Productivity and Improvement. Includes calculation formulas.

Commitment to Strategy

Improvement Plan

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

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.

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!

Measuring the High Performance Enterprise. Continue to measure actual performance using the same four key measures and calculations for high-performance enterprises: Profit, Growth, Productivity and Improvement. Compare post-transformation performance against initial diagnostic assessment.

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.