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Simple Excellence is here…

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Adam Zak

Hot off the press, Simple Excellence: Organizing the Management Team in a Lean Transformation, has arrived. Available through our publisher, Productivity Press (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis) as well as from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and other fine book merchants. Check … Continue reading →

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“Simple Excellence” – coming November 19, 2010, and in good company

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Adam Zak

From a quick glance over at  Wikipedia we can see that quite a number of awesome events have taken place on November 19th in previous years.  And someday down the road we’ll look back on this year’s November 19, in … Continue reading →

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The High Cost of Poor Accounting

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Adam Zak

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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