For part two click here.

Join us for this great session, Thursday, October 1.

Our new Policy Deployment process will show you how to close the loop between your business plans and your lean activities. In this seminar, we discuss and walk through the following 10 Steps to Policy Deployment using Lean as a System:

1. Mission, & behavioral expectations
2. Organization’s goals (i.e Safety, Operating Income, Cash Flow, Revenue, ROIC, etc)
3. Brainstorm opportunities to achieve goals
4. Define parameters to value opportunities
5. Weight and prioritize opportunities
6. Conduct a reality check
7. Develop Lean Implementation plan
8. Cascade company goals into operational metrics & develop Bowling chart
9. Problem solving, error proofing & counter measures
10. Deployment follow-up — How to conduct monthly business reviews

For more information about the August 21st session, “Policy Deployment & Lean: Implementation Planning 10 Step Roadmap to Successful Policy Deployment Using Lean as a System

Just last night I talked with a local business owner about his frustrations with interns and recent grads who spend an “inordinate amount of time” using these social platforms.

We too have experiemented with many of these and have found they can be both good and bad — regardless of your perspective, John Stewart will help you find the humerous side.  

Watch this Five minute clip:

Other Twitter Resources:

• David Allen on Twitter Time Management
• Forbes says, “ Yes, CEOs Should Facebook And Twitter“
• CIO Magazine: How and Why to Launch a Business Presence on Twitter

  What’s your opinion? Submit your comments below.

• Key Safety Metrics
• Departmental Observations
• Employee Observations
• Injury Retraining System

Check out the presentation for more detail…

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Upcoming Sessions with this presenter:

Only Dead Fish Go With the Flow — Injury Prevention One Day Workshop, June 17

Led by Clifford Clarke of c2 IT Advisors,  we all got up to speed on the value of individual information security.  By covering some of the common excuses for poor personal information security, the truth about our risk factors, and the types of attacks we face daily, we all brainstormed ways to reduce our risk.

Below are some of the links Clifford referred to in his presentation.

Be sure to check back very soon for video of the presentation!

“Payment processor says security hole fixed” (source Journal Gazette, Sherry Slater) Click here for the article with local connection

Great session this morning!
Dennis Rohrs was able to add so much value beyond the presentation — I wish we would have been rolling the cameras this morning! Jump in and dialogue with us — Dennis has agreed to try and field questions and we would love to build on his ideas. Speaking of which, these are a culmination of best practices/great ideas that have roots all the way back to a conversation Dennis had with the Director of Employment at Disney.

Come Learn and Share with us!
-Craig

YES, It Can Happen to You

Disasters can take many forms: earthquakes, floods, winter storms, hail, hurricanes, tornadoes, other water damage, fires, corporate sabotage and the list goes on!

According to the International Red Cross the cost of natural disasters has skyrocketed. In the past two decades, direct economic losses from natural disasters in the U.S. has multiplied five fold to $629 billion.

Munich Re, the world’s largest re-insurance agency reports that in 2004, disaster related loss in the U.S. was $145 billion up from $65 billion in 2003.

NOAA‘s National Climatic Data Center, reported the U.S. has sustained 70 weather-related disasters over the past 27 years in which overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. 61 of these disasters occurred during the 1988-2006 period with total unadjusted damages/costs exceeding $430 billion.

Catastrophe losses in 2005 totaled $61.2 billion from only 24 disasters. In 2006 losses totaled $9.2 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Last year losses in Indiana were the highest of any state, at $1.5 billion, followed by Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Kansas.

“Every year emergencies take their toll on business and industry — in lives and dollars. But something can be done. Business and industry can limit injuries and damages and return more quickly to normal operations if they plan ahead…Whether you operate from a high-rise building or an industrial complex; whether you own, rent or lease your property; whether you are a large or small company you must prepare.” – FMEA

Don’t become a statistic – take matters into your hands today, get started on preparing by printing this Business Continuity Check List now. Another great first step is to take this Readiness Assessment.

Disasters happen! The best way to survive is through preparation.

We’ve done Best Practice Tours in offices that would swear by this approach… is it restricting creativity?  Does it bring value?  Watching this video you might wonder if everyone is on board — we would love to hear from you.  Do you have a 5S office?  Do you love it or hate it?   — Craig