Chapter 3 Enterprise Capabilities

If you don’t know which processes determine your future, stop until you do

The first two steps on the path to building successful and enduring manufacturing businesses are to grasp reality, and to commit to mission and vision consistent with core values. Those two will underlie the work, but alone are insufficient. A manufacturer must also effectively increase the provision of value that matters and do so profitably. Good intentions don’t pay the bills.

Operational and Organizational Health

Your current capabilities will become insufficient, and likely irrelevant, sooner than you think. That is true regardless of industry. Financial success can delude us into believing we are better than we are. Despite ...

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