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The High Cost of Poor Accounting

Traditional cost accounting measures sub-optimize and work against most systemic or process approaches (Lean). Activity Based Costing (ABC) has the potential to generate even more distorted results (chapter 4, “The High Cost of Poor Accounting”). Activity Based Costing is just … Continue reading

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Making Everyone Whole – from Jim Womack, Lean Enterprise Institute

Jim Womack’s newsletter this month, posted here, very clearly explores one of the underlying reasons that Lean or Operational Excellence initiatives are often difficult to sustain (and sometimes even get off the ground).  Every affected stakeholder -whether the executive leadership team recognize it … Continue reading

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