Management Titans Clash Like Rivals in Ford versus Ferrari — Are you Team Drucker-Ferrari or Deming-Ford? For operationally excellent business results, there is one clear choice. Both Peter F. Drucker and W. Edwards Deming are recognized as forefathers and titans of modern operational management. Peter F. Drucker was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. …

The Shapes of Things to Come There are two curves that changed my mindset on strategic operational management and caused me to question my organization’s senior leadership. I call them The Beauty and The Beast. Part 1 covers The Beast. Part 2 covers The Beauty. …

Much of what we do as asset management activities is a matter of forecasting. Are we any good at it? Unfortunately, the answer is, “No, but we think we are”. Strategy deployment, asset planning, operations risk management, asset health & condition monitoring, asset performance management, and asset investment planning all…

I’ve just launched a new asset management leadership Community of sharing and learning called “The Asseteers” over at www.theasseteers.org. The Asseteers community is a freemium model providing both free community networking and body of knowledge (BoK) content for sharing and paid training courses content for learning. Please consider joining. This…

Many years ago, when I was principal reliability engineer, a plant manager suggested his plant had too many preventive maintenance (PM) plans. He was having difficulty getting all his PMs done on time. I thought his statement was odd at the time because it didn't match the verbal coming from…

If I stated the numbers 1.21 (pronounced one point twenty-one) and 42, what would they mean to you? You may recognize one or both of these numbers as pop culture references. The former, 1.21 comes from the Back to the Future movie franchise. Doc informs Marty they need 1.21 …

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Our inability to achieve operational excellence in our asset management efforts could be due to a framing problem. Are we seeing the whole picture? Maybe we need to expand our frame. What do you see? I see… We act for the short-term at the expense of the long-term. We are…

The fifth and final item in my 2022 work mantra is a personal goal for “Operation: Excellence”. What does this mean? My first four mantra goals were strictly about my business. …