by Teresa Young | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles
You’ve seen lots of articles from several of us about how to optimize your value-creating processes: template, fabricate, and install. You see more articles on this part of the business because this is where the magic happens. This is where the value is created that...
by Teresa Young | Aug 31, 2021 | Articles
Two companies decided to purchase and install their first CNC router. Company A installed the CNC, the shop is running well, and they are making more money than ever. Company B struggled to install the CNC and is constantly having problems as a result. Jobs are...
by Teresa Young | Aug 3, 2021 | Articles
If your business is not improving – increasing profit, decreasing remakes and callbacks, improving on time delivery, reducing stress and chaos – then, quite possibly, your business may be in the process of failing. In working with many fabricators and other...
by Teresa Young | Jul 7, 2021 | Articles
In a growing economy, job growth outstrips the supply of good labor – and the effects of the pandemic have only made the situation harder to manage. So, it’s no surprise that everywhere I go and in every type of industry, companies are struggling to recruit and...
by Teresa Young | May 25, 2021 | Articles
The universal primary metric of business performance is profit. If you knew how much cash your shop generated in a day and also knew how much cash your shop burned in a day, you would know how much profit you made that same day. With simple metrics like this, you can...