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Who is TIM WOODS?
TIMWOODS is an acronym for the 8 wastes effecting a company’s profitability. Learn where they are and KEY ACTIONS to remove them.
GO Productivity’s 2019 Annual Report
GO Productivity is pleased to announce the release of our 2019 Annual Report.
Your Voice, Our 2020 Goals
Your Voice, Our 2020 Goals
We’d like to take a moment to highlight some of the great work done in the last year by our clients.
GO Productivity Book Club – 5th Installment
Welcome back to the 5th installment of our Book Club. Part 5: Deploying Lean Six Sigma Continuing our read of the book: Lean Six Sigma for Dummies by John Morgan and Martin-Brenig Jones, we are now continuing onto Part 5 of the book which consists...
What’s Your Vision for 2020?
Entering 2020, we look back at our impact in the last decade. With many new advancements in innovation and technologies going into 2020, how can we help you take advantage of these opportunities? What’s your vision for 2020?
Where does your competitive advantage come from?
Competitive advantage is the edge a business has over its competitor. This can be gained by offering clients better and great value. Where does your competitive advantage come from?
Lean is not just for manufacturing
All of us need a lot of support to ‘stay on the straight and narrow’ in life. But then again so do businesses, we are in fact just groups of people trying to solve a certain world need. We know that Lean is an improvement methodology with rigour and flexibility that...
GO Productivity Book Club – 4th Installment
Welcome back to the fourth installment of our Book Club. Part 4: Improving the Process Continuing our read of the book: Lean Six Sigma for Dummies by John Morgan and Martin-Brenig Jones, we are now continuing onto Part 4 of the book which consists...
GO Productivity Book Club – 3rd Installment
Welcome back to the third installment of our Book Club Part 3: Assessing Performance Continuing our read of the book: Lean Six Sigma for Dummies by John Morgan and Martin-Brenig Jones, we are now continuing onto Part 3 of the book which consists of...
Client Success Story: Jandel Homes
A proud Albertan company Jandel Homes is a proud Albertan company that has been retailing modular homes all across the prairies [Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba], British Colombia and all over the Territories for over 45 years. Today, they are one of western...
Collaboration Model for Construction Projects
Collaborative projects and relationships are more successful, productive and open to innovation. But there are a lot of factors that improve or kill a collaborative culture and relationship. From GO Productivity’s perspective we see collaboration as important for...
GO Productivity Book Club – 2nd Installment
Welcome back to the second installment of our Book Club Part 2: Working with Lean Six Sigma Continuing our read of the book: Lean Six Sigma for Dummies by John Morgan and Martin-Brenig Jones, we are now continuing onto Part 2 of the book which consists of Chapters 3...
Client Success Story: Oakville Stamping & Bending
It started with an ARC In 2016, GO Productivity delivered an ARC (Assessment, Road-map and Coaching) to Oakville Stamping & Bending. The ARC, as it traditionally does, looked at establishing a focused productivity and innovation plan to help support the business,...
Job-related Training: Expense or Investment?
How you view job-related training at your company is a big determiner of how engaged your employees are, how they feel when they come to work, and how able your company is to tackle productivity improvement projects. If you see training as purely an expense item,...
Client Success Story: CAM Industrial
CAM Industrial dove into improving their processes with the ARC+ and improved their sales quote cycle time by 25%.
GO Productivity Book Club – LSS For Dummies – Part 1
Welcome to the first installment of our Book Club. This week we will be starting our first segment on the book: Lean Six Sigma for Dummies by John Morgan and Martin Brenig-Jones. This week we will touch upon Part 1: Getting Started With Lean Six Sigma, which will...
Structural vs. Entrepreneurial Leadership
Whether we like it or not, most of us have a tendency to fall mostly into the camp of either structural leadership or entrepreneurial leadership. Some see the value in debating which is more effective, but the fact is that neither will work in all situations encountered by leaders in the workplace, and the most effective leaders are able to use some combination of the two.
Top Four Skills Needed for Emerging Technologies
With many new emerging technologies starting to take precedence, they can seem complicated and convoluted despite the potential advantages (and disadvantages) that they bring. Major companies are embracing the rapid pace of change and taking in these new...
Collaboration and Trust
Collaborative Construction is a hot topic today. It involves breaking down the barriers between companies working together on a construction project. In a true collaborative contract, each party must be open, honest and share their true costs and contingency amounts....
Taking time to balance the day to day with long term planning
“Tomorrow, your job is to change the world into a better place. Today, your job is to see that everyone gets there.” ―Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky It’s very challenging balancing the hectic day-to-day demands of keeping your company afloat and...
Case Study: Applying Process Improvement Principles to Reduce Waste in Financial Services
As Deming once said, “If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.” The Methodologies of Lean, Six Sigma, and the combination of the two (Lean Six Sigma) were born in the manufacturing sector, but they are nothing new...
Leading Through the Turbulence
There are but four words needed to capture what's going on in the Canadian business environment: change, complexity, uncertainty, fear. There are two words, though, on which we need to focus during even the darkest of days that will get us over the hump and...
Think Lean is just for manufacturing? Think again.
Lean principles aren’t just for manufacturers. Don’t believe us? Continue reading and watch this video to see Lean transform a NYC food bank after Hurricane Sandy.
2018 Annual Report Released
GO Productivity is pleased to announce the release of our 2018 Annual Report.
Dealing with Complexity makes us Stronger – with Lean, Agile and Digital
Dealing with Complexity makes us Stronger - with Lean, Agile and Digital Canadian manufacturers have an excellent reputation across the world for good business practices. We are also uniquely positioned to supply products to local markets. This includes all the...
COVID-19 GO Productivity Response
GO Productivity's vision is for a thriving Canadian economy, and that means we need to work together during and after this pandemic to support and grow our fellow Canadian businesses. We can help: Meet (online) with one of our Productivity advisors to think through...
Goodfish Lake Stepping-up to Help during COVID-19
Here’s a great story of Albertans standing up to meet a need during this pandemic.
What is DMAIC?
DMAIC is a data-driven improvement cycle or framework that breaks down problem solving into five steps: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control.
What is Value Stream Mapping?
What is Value Stream Mapping and how can you use it to improve your business? Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is perhaps one of the most powerful tools available within the Lean toolbox. However, if you are not a low-mix, high-volume manufacturer, does VSM...
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