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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Trips to places like Iraq made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.