Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 9:57PM Brainstorming is a technique that should be in the toolbox of any team based activity in business. It can be a critical part of both the innovation and problem solving process.
Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 7:37PM I received a call this week from an old friend and fellow consultant. He lives and works in Mexico. He called to catch-up a but also to ask a specific question. He had a client who was had installed an ERP system. They were concerned they were not getting the full value out of this system and wondered what to do.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 7:40PM We would like to wish our clients and friends a most happy, healthy, and prosperous 2013! The US and World economies continue to creep forward. No one is satisfied with the pace of recovery. The Great Recession began four years ago and no one can claim we have recovered to the pre-recession glory days of "irrational exuberance." We are, as we at CR Supply Chain have emphasized from the beginning, in a New Normal. We have been in it long enough that it is just the plain old normal now.
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 4:50AM The world is abound with management theories and methods. All one need do is peruse the business aisles of either a brick and mortar or virtual bookstore. Methods, theories, applications, approaches, and systems come and go. Let’s just call them theories for lack of a better term. Management Theories come into and out of favor. Older passe theories may be re-tuned, retreaded, and recycled with a spin nomenclature and nuance to make them seem new and fresh for today. How many ways can management by objectives be recast? How many times has business process engineering or re-engineering been presented? There are countless numbers of new product development processes out there and probably more to come. New theories are promoted as new or revolutionary while structurally and thus essentially they are are equivalent to one or more of their predecessors.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 11:49PM In the past few weeks, we have noticed a trend in automotive advertisements. It seems in almost every ad we see, and as it is football season we are watching a fair amount of television, the offers are for for zeros: $0 down, $0 first month payment, $0 security deposit, $0 due at signing. This is, of course, for leases. It is not much different than for purchases with $500 - 5,000 rebates and 0% financing up to 60 months.