by Todd | Dec 11, 2025 | Transformation
The turnaround industry has a dirty secret buried in peer-reviewed research: Argentine factory workers with no MBAs, no consulting support, and no capital achieved an 87-90% business survival rate while McKinsey documents a 30% success rate for traditional corporate...
by Todd | Dec 11, 2025 | Capacity Optimization
The 72% Capacity Lie: Forensic Breakdown of Hidden Capacity STAGNATION ASSASSIN / CHAPTER 6 / THE CAPACITY LIE THE 72% CAPACITY LIE Utilization is a vanity metric. Value-adding time is the reality. Stop the $3M expansion lie. THE DASHBOARD LIE 72% REPORTED UTILIZATION...
by Todd | Dec 11, 2025 | Capacity Optimization
I analyzed a technology company where product leaders spent 65% of their time in meetings — and only 40% of that meeting time produced any decisions. Restructuring their calendar unlocked management capacity equivalent to hiring additional leaders at zero cost....
by Todd | Dec 11, 2025 | Capacity Optimization
Availability is the OEE factor everyone claims to understand and almost nobody measures honestly. The formula is simple — Run Time divided by Planned Production Time. The manipulation is simpler. Changeovers quietly become “scheduled.” Material shortages...
by Todd | Dec 11, 2025 | Capacity Optimization
The 85% OEE benchmark became “world-class” through repetition, not rigorous analysis. Industry consultants observed that top-performing discrete manufacturers clustered around that number, and it calcified into dogma — without a single examination of...
