Author: Frederic Dufour
Unravelling hidden performance opportunities through Multilevel Planning
This article explains in detail how setting up a multilevel planning organization will help companies strengthen their quality, reputation and profitability.
The need for a Global Vision
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.
Misconceptions of Lean Management
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.
Why management techniques must (always) be questioned
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.
What is a Planning Cycle?
This article explains what a "planning cycle" is and highlights the importance of implementing - and adhering to - planning cycles to increase overall business performance.
The benefits of “decompartmentalizing” resources across the organization
This article describes the principles that help companies "decompartmentalizing" their resources to aim global performance and combat the tendency to work "in silos".
Technological Businesses and PlanningForce
This article introduces Technological Businesses to the benefits of implementing PlanningForce to help them solve all planning and scheduling problems in a comprehensive way.
Planning can benefit all Stakeholders
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.
The importance of developing tools that will reconsolidate companies with their initial drive
This article sheds light on the traditional planning methodologies and tools that hinder companies in their efforts to become agile, efficient and attractive.
5 steps of developing and evaluating simulations
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.
Reenchanting the Enterprise – part 1
This article addresses one of the main challenges of modern management: how to make the company attractive to its stakeholders in the long term.
Reenchanting the Enterprise – part 3
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.