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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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Kaizen Event: How to Go About Continuous Business Improvement Like a Pro

As modern-day humans, we relish self-improvement. It’s why each New Year — and in many cases each quarter, month, or even every week — we set ourselves goals so we can become better, bolder people. But improvements, of course, aren’t only relegated to people.  In a business context, what about the workflow processes your team […]

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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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Time = Money. How to Save Both with Workflow Analysis

Wasted time. How much time do you spend sitting in traffic? Attending unnecessary meetings? Searching for lost documents? Or using outdated, slow, and difficult systems?  There is nothing worse or more harmful than wasted time. Companies lose 20-30% of revenue each year due to inefficiencies like these. “More than a third of a worker’s day […]

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Safety Inspection Checklist: How to Save Time, Money, Stress, and Lives

When we think about humankind’s most life-changing inventions, the usual suspects are brought up. The wheel. Electricity. The internet. Unfortunately, checklists hardly ever make the cut. But by using the humble checklist, we mere mortals are capable of incredible things. Take the Keystone ICU Project as an example. Doctors and nurses working in Michigan’s ICUs […]

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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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President George W. Bush, FAT FINGER CEO James McDonough & Leading Entrepreneurs Summit In Dallas

President Bush meets with business leaders to discuss how leadership and innovation can transform industries. HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Former President George W. Bush met with business leaders in Dallas to discuss how leadership, innovation and entrepreneurism transform industries and communities around the world. The event was launched at Xcentric by Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), a global, peer-to-peer network […]

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World’s Largest Oil & Gas Company Selects Tech Startup FAT FINGER To Digitize Procedures In Refineries & The Oil Field Around the Globe

Contract with the leading provider of Digital Procedure software, FAT FINGER, will allow the company to reduce operating costs and improve safety HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FAT FINGER, the leading innovator in Digital Procedure software, announced today that it has been selected by one of the world’s largest Energy companies to continue global expansion of their product that […]