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What is the Theory of Constraints?
TOC in plain English. A set of thinking tools that turn complicated problems into simple ones, built around the one thing setting your pace.
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How to prepare your business for AI
Five things worth doing before you spend a dollar on AI, from a New Zealand consultant who would rather you did the prep than bought the tool.
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AI integration for a small business in New Zealand
What AI integration actually means for an NZ small business, the two kinds of work involved, what it costs, and how to tell which one you need.
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The decision everyone agrees on and nobody makes
Putting the wrong person in a role is common. Moving them back out is the hardest call in the business, and the one most owners never make.
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Nobody gets excited about a training matrix
We did not throw out the training matrix at SKOPE. We changed what it was for, and the supervisors started using it themselves.
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Your constraint is probably not in your factory
Most owners go looking for the bottleneck on the floor. More than nine times out of ten it sits outside the business, where internal fixes cannot reach.
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The stock you are proud of is costing you
Inventory looks like an asset on the balance sheet and behaves like a problem on the floor. We cut spare parts stock 40 percent and service went up.
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The conflict that emptied our factories
Move offshore or stay in Christchurch. Both sides were right, which is why the argument never settled. The ones that did well asked a better question.
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Your bottleneck is not where you think it is
Most owners point at the machine that breaks down most. It is almost never the constraint, and chasing it costs you a year.
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AI will not fix a broken process
Automating a mess gets you a faster mess. Here is the order to do it in, and what is genuinely worth automating first.
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Twelve questions, about four minutes, and your answer on screen.