
Productivity: Cost Cutting is Not a Growth Strategy
Some organizations fall in the trap of pursuing a cost-cutting agenda. Although it seems to give some short-term wins, cost-cutting can never be a long-term strategy.

Some organizations fall in the trap of pursuing a cost-cutting agenda. Although it seems to give some short-term wins, cost-cutting can never be a long-term strategy.

Great operations management is about great decision making. A great Operations Manager spends more time fine-tuning their decision making skill

Operations Management is ripe in Uganda, it’s time to kickstart this conversation for the transformation of Ugandan organizations. Productivity is calling, operations management has an answer

We are currently construction a new approach to this value chain, the Polywagon value chain. Basically, it’s a way to understand the value chain through the components that make up a product.

Inventory and stock management are some of the critical failure points for most businesses in Uganda. There’s need for every business to have an inventory strategy

It’s time to return to the shop floor. Managers and executives must return to the place where action takes place. Leadership is not in the boardroom, it’s on the gemba

The thing I often notice in organizations is operational inertia, this inability to act, to execute on a great idea.

Yet, most projects have design validations, they have full risk assessments. We have figured out, there is a configuration missing in project management. It is the Pre-Mortems.

There are three flows in the supply chain network. These include the material, information and financial flows

Brands can get lazy, Brand managers, marketers and sales executives get lazy over time. They simply stop caring about the one person that everyone should care about.
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