by Todd Hagopian | Oct 12, 2026 | Transformation
What does this article cover? What are you actually choosing between? What does it cost? What does eight weeks actually buy? Who are the firms? What goes in the brief? What does the market data say? Who should this article send away? Where does this break down? People...
by Todd Hagopian | Oct 11, 2026 | Operations
It is day nine. You have had the plant tour, the org chart walkthrough, and four one-on-ones in which everyone was helpful and nobody said anything uncomfortable. Someone has sent you a reporting pack. It is green. And you have the specific unease of a person who...
by Todd Hagopian | Oct 11, 2026 | Leadership
1. Which variety do customers actually choose on? 2. Which variety did you inherit rather than choose? 3. What does one more option cost downstream? 4. Two kinds of customization, and only one of them scales 5. How far back can you standardize without touching the...
by Todd Hagopian | Oct 11, 2026 | Leadership
What does this article cover? Why is almost nothing written for you? What should you read in the first ninety days? What should you read across the rest of year one? What did I read, and what changed? Where does my own book fit? What should you not read yet? Who...
by Todd Hagopian | Oct 10, 2026 | Operations
1. Why Does It Have to Fit on One Page? 2. Start From the Decisions, Not the Data 3. Which Numbers Earn a Line? 4. What Goes in Each Column? 5. How Do You Set the Target Column? 6. Who Owns Each Line? 7. Where Do the Leading Indicators Sit? 8. How Do You Keep It From...
