A VERY quick way to get faster production and more profits from a factory or any other system.  By: Henry Fitzhugh Camp, November 14, 2011

If your culture is positive, it is despite Engines of Disharmony that result in turnover, getting less done, sub-optimization and a degree of dissatisfaction at all levels.  On June 8, 2009, Eli Goldratt wrote the following letter which is powerfully applicable to all of us.  IDEA attacks these engines directly converting them into Engines of Harmony!  by: Henry Fitzhugh Camp,  September 25, 2011

Thanks to Mark Stanley who sent this corroborating explanation from Dr. W. Edwards Deming pointing out the tight congruence between my Connectedness and Deming's Interdependence.  Labor Day 2011

We coined the name "SmartProducts" to mean products that seem to know how to never run out on the shelf without ever being in surplus either.  Demand Pull, TOC Replenishment, Consumer Driven Stocking, Retail Flow, whatever you call it, it drives profits by making sure consumers get what they came for and does so in a way that both reduces investment and increases available shelf space.

Here is a link to a blog about this phenomenal opportunity to blow sales and profits through the roof fast.  It is beautifully written by Lisa Ferguson, PhD of Illuminutopia.  http://bit.ly/pSIrbW

Mankind's problem is trying to nicely arrange individual pebbles, not perceiving them as parts of a boulder.             By: Henry Fitzhugh Camp, August 29, 2011

I bring you the last exhortation from Eliyahu M. Goldratt, guru to business, author, scientist and thinker.  

The knowledge exists right now to make the world a much better place.  As Sir Isaac Newton famously wrote “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”  Eli asks that we climb up on him and improve the world.  By: Henry Fitzhugh Camp, June 12, 2011

Businesses make many mistakes.  Perhaps none are as damaging as mistakes hiring.  by: Henry Fitzhugh Camp April 27, 2011

IDEA exists to accelerate world prosperity. 

Investment in continuous improvement is supported in an environment of steady reliable growth.  One of the biggest impediments to steady reliable growth is recession.  Recessions are a leading cause of uncertainty.  Uncertainty is an obstacle to investment.  So, for IDEA to achieve its goal, recessions must be avoided.  By: Henry Fitzhugh Camp, March 24, 2011

Clients tell me that they can get fill rates up but they can’t keep them up, even if they throw inventory at the problem.  When fill rates drop so do sales and turns.  It is possible to get both fill rates and turns up and keep them up.  Read on to understand the unexpected culprit that often blocks us.  By Henry Fitzhugh Camp,  March 10, 2011

Sometimes the lowest paid and least senior people in a company are the most important to its success.  How do we know when to treat them like kings and when to send them out to pick up our dry cleaning?  Actually, it is pretty easy.  By Henry Fitzhugh Camp, February 13, 2011