Kate Mackle, founder of  Thinkflow Limited, talks about  the importance of understanding the problems of a company  before assessment can even hope to represent a useful to tool to measure how well the business is doing.

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Featured Event Invitations:
IIE Annual Conference & Expo (Orlando, Florida)
Operational Excellence Forum (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (Istanbul, Turkey) click here for more

Oil service companies led by Technip SA (TEC) and Subsea 7 SA (SUBC) for the first time are working with wind energy developers in the North Sea’s 14 billion-euro ($19 billion) a year market.

The offshore engineers plan to exploit the similarities between building undersea oil installations and constructing offshore wind farms and have both established renewable energy units. Petrofac Ltd. (PFC) also offers expertise to wind developers in the North Sea, where fossil fuels first discovered in 1966 are being depleted as clean energy demand rises. click here for more

Featured Articles:
Lean Six Sigma Must Be a Waste of Energy
Escape the Improvement Trap
Avoiding Budget Business Insanity
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Would you get on an airplane if it you knew the flight would fail 25-70% of the time?  What if it was only 1% of the time?  Would you get on an airplane if you knew one out of every hundred (1:100) flights would fail?  That would be a failure rate of approximately one flight per hour, every hour, out of Newark International Airport alone (or that of any other major international airport). click here for more

Special report: Manufacturing and innovation, published by the Economist on April 21st

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Making things with a 3D printer changes the rules of manufacturing click here for more