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Altman Z-Score
Analysis Analyzer providing a fundamental indication of your company's financial health and trend. Originally developed as a bankruptcy predictor for manufacturing companies, this NEW EXPANDED EDITION now can be applied to public or private manufacturing firms, or private general firms. Used widely by investors, banks, stock analysts, etc. Provides a quick picture of financial health, exposes non-standard accounting practices, highlights focus areas for improvement. (Requires MS Excel 2003) |
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Lean SAGE™
~ Self Assessment
for the Growing Enterprise ~
Find out how your business operation compares to Lean Best Practices. Involve up to 20 assessment team members. Integrate the responses, and the SAGE™ Data Analyzer does the rest. Create shared understanding through discovery and open communication. Identify strengths and weaknesses. Set priorities for improvement focus. (Requires MS Excel 2007 -- 2003 will not work)  Download a PDF overviewDownload the evaluation version
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Standardized Work: Pursuit of
Perfection
Featured module of "Lean in 60 Minutes" mini-course series Covers major aspects of Standardized Work and Mistake-Proofing, critical to any Lean improvement initiative. Includes an original exercise to reinforce presentation points. Ideal for third-party facilitators delivering training; in-house champions wanting to spread awareness and appreciation of the discipline; self-study. Download
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The
Adventures of Audrey Order
Her
Journey Through a Not-So-Lean Office
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Strategy Deployment Templates Conduct your strategy deployment and execution more effectively. Developed as a companion product to our unique Applied Strategy Execution™ Application Guide + Slides. To maximize the benefits of the templates, we recommend using these two innovative resources together. But even as a stand-alone tool, the templates are highly effective and a terrific value. Download a PDF sample |
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Deployment Project eValuator™ Invest in the right projects! Select projects, review priorities and more! If you need an objective means to evaluate the relative merit of various improvement projects — an evaluation that can go beyond simple financial-return calculations — then the Deployment Project Evaluator™ (DPE) is your solution. Download a PDF overviewDownload
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ĀSE™ Self-Study Edition Put your strategy to work with this PDF Edition of the Applied Strategy Execution program. It is a structured framework for clearly stating an organization's strategic goals and objectives, and translating them throughout the organization. By defining and clarifying the relationships between objectives and the specific work processes of business operations, you will establish linkages to ensure alignment and optimize resources. (Requires Adobe
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ĀSE™ Instructor Edition A primary PDF file with an embedded PPT slideshow. The Application Guide is tightly integrated with the presentation slides. Many slides include references to specific pages in the Application Guide where the topic of interest is discussed in more detail. Users can add/modify/delete slides and add speaker notes as desired. Content is identical to that in the Self-Study Edition. (Adobe
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MS PowerPoint 2003)
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