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There is often confusion between Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Both are important tools in manufacturing, but they serve different purposes. MES focuses on execution and control of the manufacturing process, while ERP manages the overall business. MES System vs ERP System An MES system provides real-time data and information…

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) – Every Business tool for Growth and Optimization Every year, manufacturing industries spend millions of dollars on systems to help in achieving their desired results during production processes. Monitoring how our machines work on the floor is crucial during production and other related activities. The system that controls the entire process…

We’re asked a lot of times whether there is any value in a company embarking on a leadership development programme (or initiative). Our answer, invariably, is yes. What makes us so confident? Two things, at the very least… 1. The value of Leadership Development (research) The first factor behind our confidence comes from a little-known study into…

We’ve seen before how chronic employee disengagement is affecting companies’ growth prospects, so we thought the time was right for a post on one approach companies in general and HR departments and managers in particular can do to better manage the malaise. This works for companies of any size, and draws its inspiration from the 2011 movie Moneyball starring Brad…

A key challenge facing leaders at every level of an organisation is how to execute on their strategy. They may take tens of thousands – even hundreds of thousands – of man hours defining and articulating a strategy, and then… …nothing happens! This is an age-old problem that has exercised many a management theorist, and in this…

‘Collaboration’ is a word used a lot in companies these days – yet few professionals find it easy to articulate exactly what it is. There’s a sense collaboration has something to do with teamwork, but even our concept of what a team is can be quite confused. In our technological age, where the word seems to…

HR is typically seen as the ‘cost centre’ of a company’s activities. While Marketing might command as much as 30% of a company’s internal expenditure, Human Resource Departments routinely operate on as little as 1% of budgets. Yet is this practice just a little… misguided? This post has a look at one key contribution HR makes…

Those of you who have been on training courses in the past will know that not all training is the same. This statement may sound like the blindingly obvious, a truism, but what is it that really differentiates a truly memorable training experience from a mediocre one? This post looks at two critical factors… 1. Active…

One of the challenges many people working inside companies find is the difficulty of overcoming the attitude of scarcity mentality and ‘minimising risks’. And while minimising risks is certainly an important attitude to have, we believe (and this is especially true in Asia) that it far outweighs an even more important attitude – maximising opportunities. So we…