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KPI Fireside is the podcast for business leaders, process improvement professionals, and anyone passionate about making things better.
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Jonathan Lewis on The New Story of Work (opens the original)
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The old story of work is gone. Work hard, be loyal, get rewarded, retire to a beach someday. That shared story no longer exists. So what story is your team telling instead? In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Jonathan David Lewis , president of McKee Wallwork, a brand strategy firm, Forbes contributor, and author of The Rebuilders: Daily Foundations for the Leaders We Need. Jonathan led a national psychographic study of over 3,000 workforce participants to understan
Ram Sukumar on Scaling Continuous Improvement Across 13 Manufacturing Plants (opens the original)
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Most CI programs start with good intentions and stall at one plant. Ram Sukumar built one that works across thirteen. In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Ram Sukumar, Director of Continuous Improvement for Hexpol Compounding Americas. Over the last six years, Ram has built and deployed the Hexpol Production System across 13 manufacturing plants in the US and Mexico, trained more than 1,100 employees across white, yellow, and green belt programs, and created a cultur
Keshawn Cupid on The Next Generation of Continuous Improvement (opens the original)
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What if the biggest barrier to improvement in your organization is not the process, the tools, or even the data? What if it is the way people see the problem in the first place? In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris welcomes back Keshawn Cupid , founder of Modern Kaizen and a lean and operational excellence expert on the cutting edge of human-centered AI transformation. Keshawn works with organizations across manufacturing, consulting, and professional development, and brings a rare
Alan Lucien on Building a High Performance Team (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to build a business you love running for 25 years without burning out, selling out, or losing yourself in the process? In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Alan Lucien , co-founder of EZ Process Pro, the ERP platform purpose-built for furniture and mattress retailers. Twenty-five years ago, Alan and his wife Jill could not find software that understood their family furniture business, so they built their own. That software now powers over 1
Dr. Alan Barnard on Finding Your AI Bottleneck (opens the original)
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If AI is so powerful, why are most companies not getting results from it? The answer has everything to do with whether you are solving the right problem. In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Dr. Alan Barnard , CEO of Goldratt Research Labs, decision scientist, and one of the world's leading experts in theory of constraints. Alan co-founded Goldratt Research Labs with Dr. Eli Goldratt, the creator of theory of constraints, and has spent decades helping organizations a
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