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Muda: What It Is & How to Easily Remove Waste In Essential Processes

Waste (aka ‘muda’). It’s something that we just don’t like. From waking up too late and feeling like we’ve wasted time, to wasting food (us Americans waste over 150,000 tonnes of food each day), to walking along a street that’s piled up with garbage, the majority of us don’t want to contribute to or be […]

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How to Create a Safe & Happy Workplace with a Risk Assessment Template

What do BlackBerry, BP, Target, and a large engineering company have in common?  All four organizations failed to assess risk and as a result, suffered hugely (I’ll be divulging the gory details later).  But, BlackBerry, Kodak, Target, and the large engineering firm aren’t the only ones. For the average organization, over 85% of its efforts […]

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Process Design: What It Is, Why You Need It, & How To Get It Right

Flat-pack furniture instructions. Do you follow them to a ‘T’ or leave them in the box?  Although it takes me twice as long, I never have the right tools at hand, and I always have to re-build parts – I rarely follow instructions when building my flat-pack wardrobes, chairs, and tables.  Why?  Because they can […]

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Manufacturing Processes: How to Truly Take Control of Factory Floor Operations

Nobody expected a world-changing pandemic to happen in 2020.  If we did, we would have prepared better. Especially those of us who play a fundamental part in supply chains — like the manufacturers, whose essential items and products need to keep being made, and whose teams were unable to pivot to working from home as most […]

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FREE COVID-19 Procedure App

Our hearts go out to all the front-line teams across the world dealing with the COVID-19 virus. We want to help by offering FAT FINGER our Digital Procedure software for free for any COVID-19 related procedure, form, checklist or data collection tool. Our intention is to help teams of all types operate as safe and […]

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9 Sure Signs of a Loyal Customer

As a founder, you know what makes a good CTO, CFO, Social Media Manager and so on. But can you identify the same sort of qualities in your clients? We asked nine entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: “What is a sure sign of a loyal customer?”. Source: smallbiztrends.com “How to Identify […]