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Leading with Business Metrics

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Overview

Understanding and Using Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to Steer Your Organization

What you'll learn:
  • The purpose of business metrics
  • How Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) monitor your organization's performance
  • Basic business definitions
  • Common business problems that can be monitors with business metrics
  • Typical manufacturing organizational structure
  • Examples of business metrics from 6 majors areas of manufacturing
  • Examples of KPI "dashboards"
  • Downloadable Excel worksheets that you can adapt to your own organization

Management guru, Peter Drucker once said,

"If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it."

And while manufacturing and quality professionals are accustomed to measuring the parts they produce, often the management and business processes around them go unmeasured, and therefore not in a position to be improved.

Learn an easy-to-implement yet effective system to measure and monitor the processes key to your organization in "Leading with Business Metrics". And quantifying the performance of these critical processes allows you to better understand them and start the process of improving them.

"Leading with Business Metrics" includes instruction on:

  • The basics of business objectives

  • Basic business definitions

  • Typical manufacturing organizational structure

  • Relevant business metrics for six key areas of your manufacturing organization including: Top Management, Purchasing, Operations, Plant Management, Materials, and Quality

  • How to formulate and plot Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) in Microsoft Excel (Excel templates included)

  • How to set up "dashboards" for your periodic metrics

  • A case study to review and use to practice calculating metrics

So if you want to better understand your business and help accelerate its pace toward lasting improvements, then "Leading with Business Metrics" is what you need.

When you enroll, you not only get all its videos and downloadable resources, taught by an industry expert in manufacturing management, but you also get LIFETIMEACCESS to its materials and messaging access to its instructors through the Udemy platform.

This course is a packed with value at a price everyone can afford. YOUHAVENOTHINGTOLOSE, and only knowledge to gain. Sign up today!!

Taught by

Ray Harkins, The Manufacturing Academy and Michael J. Vella

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