Mar 23 2014
Renault: An international school of Lean Manufacturing opens at Flins | Automotive World
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“Jose-Vicente de Los Mozos, Executive Vice President, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, of the Renault Group, inaugurated the International School of Lean Manufacturing yesterday.”
When I visited this plant in 1994, I never imagined that it would be the site of an international school of Lean 20 years later.
We were working at the time on Lean implementation with CIADEA, the Renault licensee in Argentina. It had originally been a subsidiary, was sold to local entrepreneur Manuel Antelo in 1992, and was repurchased by Renault in 1997.
At the time, my hosts in Flins thought that Lean was just a way to cut heads and that implementing 5S would cause production to drop.
Times change.
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Mar 27 2014
Is it a Bad Idea to Pay a Lean Consultant Based on a Percentage of Cost Savings? | Mark Graban
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Blog post at Lean Blog : The price paid for most management consulting work is based on either a daily rate or some variation of a flat-rate fee based on what is being delivered. Enterprise software pricing is also often fixed. In both cases, the client pays this with some expectation of benefits and even an “ROI” for the customer.[..]
I agree with Mark, and I am happy when clients report that they get ten times in benefits what our services cost. A daily fee for work done on site and a fixed fee for deliverables for offsite work are simple arrangements; paying a percentage of benefits, whether cost savings or revenue increases, is a complicated arrangement, conducive to misunderstandings and disagreements.
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