Author: Frederic Dufour

This article explains in detail how setting up a multilevel planning organization will help companies strengthen their quality, reputation and profitability.

Companies must adopt a global vision of their various departments as attempting to improve specific operations at a time is time consuming and less than optimal.

This article goes back to the sources of lean management to understand how to implement it in accordance with the theories of its founding fathers.

Deming and Öno revolutionized the way of producing. While paying tribute to them, this article shows that each era brings new challenges in terms of management.

This article explains what a "planning cycle" is and highlights the importance of implementing - and adhering to - planning cycles to increase overall business performance.

This article describes the principles that help companies "decompartmentalizing" their resources to aim global performance and combat the tendency to work "in silos".

This article introduces Technological Businesses to the benefits of implementing PlanningForce to help them solve all planning and scheduling problems in a comprehensive way.

This article presents some of the KPIs that can be used in PlanningForce to measure the quality of a schedule in the light of the expectations of the different stakeholders.

This article sheds light on the traditional planning methodologies and tools that hinder companies in their efforts to become agile, efficient and attractive.

This article details the steps to follow in order to thrive an efficient process of creating, testing and implementing various strategies based on the use of the PlanningForce simulation tool.

This article addresses one of the main challenges of modern management: how to make the company attractive to its stakeholders in the long term.

In this third and last part of this article, we invite leaders to embark on the path of reforms that will enable the company to become or become again a place of personal fulfillment.