All Entries in the "Training" Category
What’s Worse Than Training Your Workers?
I just read a quote, “What’s worse than training your workers and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.” by motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, that says in 15 short words all you need to know about why training of your supply chain staff (and value analysis teams) is mission critical. You should paste this [...]
How Committed is Your Staff to Success?
I just read an article written by Robert Simon, a Harvard professor, in the Harvard Business Review, who asked this question, “How committed are your employees to helping each other (and to your department’s success)?” I think that is a question that we should all be asking ourselves. Simon says that it is not only [...]
What You Need to Learn in Business School
Most of us have taken some business school courses only to learn that most didn’t really relate to the job of supply chain manager in which we’re working today. On the other hand, I thought I would talk about the four business courses (below) that I took and that I believe are essential for supply [...]
What a Great Model for Any Hospital Value Analysis Program
Last week I was on site at a client’s location conducting an advanced 1-day LEAN Value Analysis Training Program for their value analysis team leaders and team members. This was this client’s annual value analysis refresher course which I think is a perfect model for all value analysis programs to emulate. Why? Because too often [...]
Learn From Your Peers with Pride
I just made a presentation (Game Changer: 2009 Recession) at a regional material management association’s meeting last Friday and as always, I possibly learned more than the participants that attended this meeting. This is always the case when you teach any subject. What I learned at this meeting was how much you can learn [...]
How to Create, Manage and Maintain High Performance Value Analysis Teams
Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices No Cost Educational Webinar How to Create, Manage and Maintain High Performance Value Analysis Teams Take Your Value Analysis Savings and Quality Improvement Program to a Whole New Level of Higher Performance and Quality Results Webinar Objectives: Evolution of Supply Value Analysis Committees and Teams? Where They Came [...]
How to Select the Best Value Analysis Team Leaders
Indentifying the best value analysis team leader candidates can be like playing a game of roulette if you don’t have a list of proven characteristics that are known to be a good predictor of success. To help you in your selection here are four characteristics you should look for in your Value Analysis leaders: [...]
5 Ways to Speed Up The Time It Takes to Perform Value Analysis Studies And Save More in the Process!
Are your value analysis studies taking too long? You probably have heard the old song “Endless Summer”. This song reminds me of the song played at many value analysis team meetings across the country. You may have heard this tune at your own value analysis meetings as well: Endless VA Studies! In my 27+ [...]
Law of Deminishing Returns
Savings Beyond Price -Weekly eNewsletter – January 21, 2009 Robert T. Yokl President & Chief Value Strategist Excellence is an Art Won by Training Aristotle is quoted as saying that “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation”. Training is the sure path to improvement, reducing the resistance to change [...]
New Software Opens up a Whole New World of Supply Chain Savings Previously Thought Impossible
For Immediate Release – Contact: Robert T. Yokl @ 800-220-4274 New Software Opens up a Whole New World of Supply Chain Savings Previously Thought Impossible Utilizer™ Dashboard version 3.2 just released! Finally, there is a user friendly software that will enable healthcare organizations to quickly identify their supply utilization misalignments from the 30,000 [...]
