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Ron Van Nostrand, CPIM, MBA, is the Services Project Manager for Datacraft Solutions.  According to Van Nostrand, “Companies with lean initiatives move from card kanban to e-kanban and the impact on their enterprise is dramatic.” Van Nostrand addresses the specific benefits of moving to an electronic or digital kanban environment.

Signum automates the administration and execution of electronic replenishment to reduce overhead costs for key operations personnel and to improve supply chain collaboration across a client’s supply network
Signum enable suppliers to gain visibility to our client on-hand inventory and consumption of their products which enables them to accurately anticipate the requirements of our clients (key to improving supplier on-time delivery performance and order fill rates)
In some cases, clients have realized reductions in inventory and the occurrence of inventory stock-outs far exceeding their wildest hopes
Clients have used the additional purchasing resource time freed up by Signum to embark on strategic purchasing initiatives including formal supplier development programs

Signum is really a relatively simple, but high tech solution, that the client can set up for live production quickly and after just five days, the client can be in position to achieve almost instant ROI through efficient application of real time supply chain collaboration and consumption-based replenishment.  Clients use the Datacraft Solutions’ SaaS tool for reliable and cost effective communication of the demand to suppliers and can receive the same pull-based usage from their customers.  Signum has an array of features and functions that can be used in an assortment of combinations that lead to very creative application to the particular challenges that face our customers who represent diverse industries.

Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com) delivers a revolutionary digital kanban process of automation solutions to lean manufacturers through a secure Internet gateway, eliminating the need to install and maintain a complex IT infrastructure. The company has experienced significant growth in the past two years by eliminating complicated, expensive, time-intensive software implementations as well as extensive training regimens and the need for internal support. Datacraft Solutions’ replenishment supply chain digital kanban system allows customers to access and utilize powerful lean benefits immediately for a low, predictable monthly fee. Services are scalable so manufacturers can design an appropriate digital kanban solution.

Datacraft Solutions

www.datacraftsolutions.com

Sonja Foust

sfoust@datacraftsolutions.net

800-819-5326

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Business executives don’t have to win votes to get appointed. But to be a successful leader, in the corporate world or the political world, you need to know who you are and what you stand for.

Even if you’re not the next president of the USA, I urge you to spare five minutes to read these questions. It’s a challenge, I warn you.

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Governance developed 15 questions for presidential candidates. It might be worth taking a look at the HowYouLead website.

But if you don’t have time to review the site, here’s the list of 15 questions, translated for managers and leaders in business.

Who Are You Really?

1. Values: What are your five core values and how do they shape how you lead?

2. Attributes and Competencies: What are the attributes and competencies you value most in yourself that will serve you well in your role?

3. Weaknesses and Mistakes: Recent history has many examples of leaders whose weaknesses brought them down. What are your tendencies that could cause your leadership to fail?

4. People I Have Learned From: What figure from your past has exercised leadership in a way that you aspire to? What were their strengths? Tell us about a situation that tested their leadership.

5. Multicultural Experience/World View: What experiences have helped you deeply understand the mindset and values of other cultures?

Who Will Be at the Table With You?

6. Building a Team: Tell us about a high-performing team that you’ve built. What made it high-performing?

7. Coalition Building: Can you share some examples of when you were a catalyst who brought groups with polarized opinions together so that all voices were at the table?

8. Increasing Participation: The internet and technology have flattened the business playing field, allowing for more participation and collective decision-making. How will you create a more participatory business and give people the opportunity to influence decision-making?

9. Increasing Participation: Young people are coming into the workforce in greater numbers than ever before. Please give us some examples of how you have listened and responded to the next generation in your leadership. How will you keep the next generation engaged?

How Will You Decide?

10. Decision-making Style: The leader’s role requires decisiveness. Please share some examples of your ability and willingness to be decisive. Can you tell us about a time when a lack of decisiveness got you into trouble? In retrospect, what would you have done differently?

11. Judgment: Tell us about a time when your judgment was tested in crisis. What do you want us to appreciate about your judgment?

How Will You Act? And What Will You Act On?

12. Leading Change: Can you give us an example of how you have overcome resistance to bring about a needed change?

13. Innovative Thinking: How will you create an environment for innovation within your leadership team?

14. Building the Confidence of Others: What are the first few things you’ll do to raise confidence inside your company and outside?

15. Indicators of Your Values: What leadership skills and values do you bring to the challenge of leading your business in a way that puts people first? Can you point to three things in your past that will help us understand that you care about this challenge?

These are the things that the voters need to know about a potential president. Most business executives may be relieved that they don’t have to undergo similar scrutiny when they are appointed!