Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
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Plant General Manager – Full Manufacturing P&L + Lean Transformation Champion
Plant GM – Operations - Lean Transformation – full Manufacturing P&L Architectural Building Products – Newark, NJ metro region Situation Overview Founded in the late 1940’s, and very much the industry pioneer, our client has grown into one of the largest … Continue reading
Posted in Lean Career Opportunities
Tagged Adam Zak, Adam Zak Executive Search, career move, career opportunity, change leadership, Excellence, Leadership, Lean, management, manufacturing, Newark, nj metro area, operational execution, plant operations, Toyota Production System, transformation, voice of the customer
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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
Posted in Thoughts on Lean
Tagged activity based costing, Adam Zak, automation, Change Management, competitive manufacturing, Excellence, lean accounting, management team, optimize, simple accounting, transformation, voice of the customer
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Just-In-Time BMWs – Lean Thinking in Spartanburg
Get exactly the car you want in two to six weeks. Sounds good to me. However, the article describes this particular vehicle as a rush “priority.” So I’m getting the sense that Spartanburg might be able to use a few more Lean Leaders … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Zak
Tagged Adam Zak, bmw, bmws, Business, Excellence, Lean Leaders, Lean Thinking, Operational Excellence, Spartanburg
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