Apple iPhone is On Sale Now!

Finally the Apple iPhone is on sale. There’s a few more hours before the store opens but there are already so many people queuing up in front of the New York Apple store to purchase the new Apple iPhone. What can we learn from Apple?

First, Apple is doesn’t create a whole new hi-tech product that normally requires a lot of education and advertising. However, they always ride on the trend, such as the iPod which is not the first mp3 portable music players, and create a product that the customers would desire to have through their design and intuitive interface and features.

Secondly, they are able to create a whole set of back-end products such as selling music and now videos through their iTune which gives lots of profits.

I believe there are a lot more we can learn from Apple but for me these are 2 good learnings that I do learn from Apple and now thinking how I can model these learning onto my business. If you have any additional tips or ideas, please do comment. Thanks.

Why Toyota is So Successful?

While reviewing my Lean Management talk in Mauritius for Africa expo tomorrow on How do we model the success of Toyota. There are 4Ps that have been emphasized by Toyota but when others try to learn from Toyota they merely see the surface of implementing their process improvement & problem solving tools without realize the importance of the other 2Ps which are people & philosophy which are the driving forces behind Toyota’s success. You can read about the details in The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker.

A Lean Nation/ Country

It’s been almost 7 months since I last visited Mauritius. I just can’t wait to be able to meet my friends over there. This is a nation that has previously embark on Gemba Kaizen journey and since last year I have been working with one of the government body to promote Lean Management to all the enterprises in Mauritius.

On 29 Jun 2007, this Friday, I’ll be presenting Lean to not only Mauritian but also enterprises from other African nation. I am really proud that the government realize the importance of getting the enterprises in this country lean so that they can gain the competitive edge over other nations. And, I believe Mauritius is the first nation that is embarking on becoming a Lean Nation.

I am delighted to be able to work with this nation to get them to be more productive and at the same time enjoy the beautiful Mauritius island. Here’s the photo I took from Flic En Flac, one of the nicest beach that I love. By the way, if any of you interested in visit Mauritius, I have a good friend who always take me around the island to show you beautiful beaches, waterfalls, good restaurants and many, please write to me at acheah@yahoo.com so that I can recommend him to you. Check out the beautiful Mauritius beach picture that I took.

If you like to know more on the work that I have done in Mauritius, you can refer to http://leanadvisors.com/Lean/articles/sofap.cfm .

Welcome to the Business Improvement Tips and Ideas Blog!

Welcome to Business Improvement Tips and Ideas Blog! The purpose of this blog is to share my ideas and tips mainly from my consulting experience so that we, from the management field, can learn from each other to improve ourselves, businesses, management and companies.

Due to my extensive traveling, I’ll try to do my best to update this blog and also due to my expertise in Lean Management or Lean Manufacturing so I’ll be sharing a lot of topic related to that which I’ve personally seen Lean works for a lot of organizations. If any of you have something related to leadership, management or business improvement, please do not hesitate to share or give your comments. With this, we will make this blog a better place or a reference point to help us improve ourselves. Thanks.