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How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 3

Christoph Roser — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:00:26 +0000

This is the last of my three posts on how to benefit at the cost of your successor. And again, please don’t. This is more of a warning on how to damage the plant for the benefit of the manager. And again, I hope rather than someone using this as a to-do list, someone uses ... Read more

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How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 2

Christoph Roser — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:00:15 +0000

This is the second post in this short three-post series on how to look good while driving the plant into the ground. Again, the following is intended more of a warning on how NOT to do it, even though I fear some may use it as a checklist. My hope is that even more see ... Read more

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How to Look Good at the Cost of Your Successor (Please Don’t!)–Part 1

Christoph Roser — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:00:39 +0000

This post series will be an unusual one. I will tell you how to look good in manufacturing at the cost of your successor. Of course, I do NOT want you to do that. Not only will there be no improvement, but instead the plant will be worse in the long run at the cost ... Read more

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Volkswagen Supplier Relations Failure

Christoph Roser — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:00:50 +0000

In the last months, there has been an unprecedented power struggle between Volkswagen and its suppliers. Two of the suppliers stopped delivering, leading to a full stop of multiple production lines at six Volkswagen plants, including its main plant Wolfsburg. This whole mess comes on top of the separate problems Volkswagen has had with its Dieselgate. ... Read more

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More On Cuba’s Planned Economy: Cuban Industry

Christoph Roser — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:00:14 +0000

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on the Cuban economy, focusing on commerce (See How a Planned Economy Can Screw Up an Entire Country – Analogy between Cuba’s Communist Economy and Push Systems). On the same visit I not only saw supermarkets, but I also had a look at industry. Unfortunately there are ... Read more

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Lies, Damned Lies, and KPI – Part 2: Effects of Fudging

Christoph Roser — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:00:53 +0000

Modern manufacturing works with a lot of performance measures, often called key performance indicators (KPIs). Unfortunately, they are rarely accurate, and often even intentionally misleading. In my previous post I described some examples of commonly manipulated KPIs. In this post I would like to explain the ugly consequences of incorrect or manipulated KPIs. In a ... Read more

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Lies, Damned Lies, and KPI – Part 1: Examples of Fudging

Christoph Roser — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 11:00:42 +0000

Statistical measurements, usually called key performance indicators (KPIs) are found on pretty much every shop floor and in every company. Many management decisions are made based on KPI. Unfortunately, these numbers often are not reliable at all. Mark Twain popularized the phrase “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Winston Churchill famously said, “I only believe in ... Read more

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How a Planned Economy Can Screw Up an Entire Country – Analogy between Cuba’s Communist Economy and Push Systems

Christoph Roser — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:00:27 +0000

Over Christmas I escaped the cold weather in Germany and relaxed on the warm beaches in Cuba. Of course, being a lean expert, I was also interested in the Cuban economy. As a communist economy (or more precisely, a socialist economy), it is based on centralized planning. In comparison, the capitalist system of the US ... Read more

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