Tag: SME
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Learning from Japan to adopt Lean in SMEs: Leadership, Culture and Training
Success factors and adjustments for SMEs In crafting this website, we aimed to share our personal experiences and those of fellow industrialists in crisis management through Lean tools within the realm of financial control. Our intention is to humbly propose avenues for fine-tuning and enhancing our own methodologies. During our management journey, we’ve explored how…
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A strategic guide for enhancing performance in crises
A comprehensive study of Lean and Financial Control Lean and management control are two powerful tools that can help companies improve their performance and achieve their strategic goals in a crisis context. However, there is still some debate about how to best implement these tools, and what role leaders should play in the process. Leaders…
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Empowering Small Enterprises with Lean Manufacturing: Achieving Autonomy, Innovation, and Competitiveness
Unlocking autonomy through Lean manufacturing Lean Manufacturing isn’t just about efficiency; it’s about finding the best way to do things. It’s like a secret recipe that saves money, improves quality, and makes customers really happy. That means spending less, making fewer mistakes, and winning people over. Lean Manufacturing, often linked to big industries, has something…
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SIPOC and Visual Management: The Lean alternative for SMEs
SIPOC : Your SME’s path to process excellence Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often find themselves wrestling with the challenge of continuous improvement. The popular choice is Lean methodology, with its promise of waste elimination and efficiency gains. But, let’s face it, Lean can be like navigating a labyrinth for many SMEs, consuming precious time…
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Hoshin Kanri: Building high performance and results in SMEs across the globe
A tool for aligning vision, goals and actions Hoshin Kanri is a strategic planning model that originated in Japan and is based on the principles of lean management. It is a method of continuous improvement that can help entrepreneurs align their daily work with their long-term goals. It eliminates the waste that comes from inconsistent…
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Best advice to first-time exporters
Sometimes we lead presentations on international growth to Entrepreneurs, First-time exporters and Sales managers. These new entrants in the conquest of new international markets are swimming on the blind-side, a bit like a driver without a map. Mandatory step for all exporters, we are in complete uncertainty about the possible destinations, the method to be…
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