Savvy printing executives would agree that systematically striving for operational excellence is one key to financial success. OK, then why don’t more companies do it? The are many reasons, but I bet ...

A common model used to describe the transition that takes place anytime someone learns and applies a new skill is the four stages of competence. If you’re unfamiliar with the model, I’ll describe it ...

In today’s marketplace, many leading companies are focused on building a model of Operational Excellence to help align a company’s strategic objectives with the leadership, business process and ...

For the power and utility sector, operational excellence allows every member of a plant to visualize how workflows operate to produce optimal output. Doing so enables all personnel to identify issues ...

Companies that want to achieve a sustainable and profitable business need to focus on three dimensions of their operations, generally speaking. First is value protection, a foundational concern that ...

Thierry Djeumo, a former consultant at McKinsey France and an international consultant, is one of the authors of the new study, Operational Excellence: An Untapped Disruption Lever for African ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. According to a 2022 McKinsey study, the mining industry is not keeping up with other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Bendor-Samuel is founder & executive chairman of Everest Group. Many industry analysts have a theory that digital ...

Coal-fired plant owners were caught between the metaphorical rock and hard place in 2012. The “rock” was new regulations promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the year, such ...