LISTEN TO THE PODCAST John Abplanalp, Founder and CEO of Tight Lines Advisors, recently joined Lisa Ryan, host of the Manufacturer’s Network podcast for lively and highly informative conversation on the topic of productivity and the many issues and challenges surrounding it. • The effects of company culture • Global supply chain headwinds • Managing […]
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST John Abplanalp, Founder and CEO of Tight Lines Advisors, recently sat in on an episode of The Manufacturing Executive Podcast, joining host Joe Sullivan, for a timely and highly informative discussion about how turn the tide of decreasing productivity that has reached its lowest point in 75 years. John leans into […]
By John Abplanalp LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Founder and CEO of Tight Lines Advisors, John Abplanalp joins Manufacturing Talk Radio Podcast co-hosts Lewis Weiss and Tim Grady for a lively and informative discussion about optimizing productivity, process, and margins for small, medium, and large manufacturers. John takes a deep dive into the Tight Lines Advisors […]
By John Abplanalp Let’s look at some recent statistics and take stock (no pun intended) of recent trends in productivity that will influence the economic landscape in 2023. In its revised second quarter productivity and economic news release, the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that “nonfarm business sector labor productivity fell 4.1 percent […]
By John Abplanalp Formulating an effective strategy for sustainable productivity is one of the greatest challenges facing today’s manufacturers. In fact, the numbers underscoring that challenge can be quite sobering. According to an August 9, 2022, Reuters report, “U.S. worker productivity in the second quarter fell at its steepest pace on an annual basis since […]
A survivor’s guide to navigating the historic drop in productivity and the increase in cost-of-goods. By John Abplanalp As COVID-19 pandemic has begun to wane in recent months and economies have reopened, new uncertainties and headwinds have emerged that are affecting productivity across all industrial sectors, from global markets to local organizations. An area of […]
By John Abplanalp In recent articles, I have written about how businesses that lack a defined and unifying purpose experience lower productivity; shared my thoughts on how companies can drive growth through the unification of purpose; and offered a methodology for driving value creation and sustainable prosperity. In this article, the focus is on driving […]
By John Abplanalp In my previous article, “Rethinking the Purpose of a Corporation,” I wrote about how a business that lacks purpose experiences low productivity and remains vulnerable due to negative mechanisms and that, how in contrast, purpose-driven corporations achieve longevity through the implementation of positive workforce mechanisms. The direct influence of employees in determining […]
By John Abplanalp As someone who has spent his life engaged in driving growth at every level of business operation, it’s always been evident to me that to be successful and meaningful to all stakeholders, a corporation needs positive purpose if it hopes to achieve sustainable profitability. This was evident in my first job […]
(New Canaan, CT – May 2019) John Abplanalp, President & CEO of Tight Lines Advisors, will be speaking at the 2019 Sustainable Productivity Seminar on the topic of The Future of Productivity and Intelligent Automation in Manufacturing. An accomplished veteran of industrial manufacturing for more than 35 years before founding Tight Lines Advisors four years […]