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Business Leaders - Lessons from Golf
  • Jim McLean, one of golf's top instructors and the owner of Jim McLean Golf Schools shares ways business leaders can apply the same pre-game golf  routine to their business preparedness.
  • Leaders are busy people.  What's the No. 1 tip for making the most of their limited golf time.
Let's Start Your Lean Journey - NOW
  • Confused on how to begin your Lean journey, consider these steps.
Developing the Next Generation Leaders
  • Developing the Next Generation Leaders
  • It's Not About the Tools.  Focus on the desired outcomes and watch your team grow.
Focus on Change to Move Your Business Forward
    Turn Skeptics into Advocates of change
  • Consistency erodes skepticism
  • Why "It's About the People"
  • Focus on Moving forward
Lessons from the Final Four
  • John Wooden, on leadership in business
  • "lean" is not just for manufacturing
  • UPS - Making Right Forever
8 Principals for Strategic Success
  • IDS Merges with Capstone
  • Featured Business - Vira Manufacturing
Organizational Development
Get the Most Out of Your Lean Tools
  • Want to get more out of your Lean Tools.  Read how to get even more value out of your lean initiatives by focusing on just a few key business tools.
Lean in the Medical Office
  • Remember Dr. Sami?  He is up to his old tricks -- removing waste and making the customer experience even better. 
  • Floss the Teeth You Want to Keep - set the right goals, or you may find yourself without a business. 
  • Base-Line completes acquisition of Pennan Distribution.
Apple Pie, Baseball, and Business
  • What can Major League Baseball teach us about finding the right measures for business.
  • Which continuous improvement process is right for your business.
  • Creating an atmosphere of experimentation.
Use All Employees to Establish Improvement Goals
  • Start the year off right.  Take advantage of the ideas of your employees and make innovation and experimentation a part of your business strategy.
Small Businesses Excel at Innovation
  • Why being Bigger is not necessarily Better
  • Small Businesses have freedom to innovate
Lean Your Sales Processes
  • Leaning the Sales Process
  • Management by Walking Around
  • How to Begin LEAN without upper management support
Process Optimization
Process and Technology Optimization
  • Thinking about upgrading your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to solve your productivity, service and materials logistics problems?   You may want to learn how the market leaders manage their processes and materials logistics before you call your software vendor.
Using ERP to Help with Your Lean Initiatives
  • How does Technology look in your Future state.
  • Use ERP to help with your Lean Process Improvement Initiatives.
  • What's the Next area for Lean?
Technology Enablement
Turning Your Strategy Into Reality

  • Know the difference between the will to win, and willing to do whatever it takes to win.      
  • Want to make more money, get your Six Sigma Certification at the University of Datyon Center for Competitive Change.
Have Information You Need to Make Decisions

  • Less than 10% of executives have the information when needed it to make informed decisions.
  • Want to make more money, get your Six Sigma Certification at the University of Datyon Center for Competitive Change.
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Fundamental Maxim of Business Leaders
  • Ostrich Management
  • Getting Value from varying change mind sets
ERP Now Offers Strong ROI from Small Businesses
  • Times and solutions have change.  Uses Capstone to help select the best solution to integrate with YOUR business processes.
Smarter businesses need smart solutions.