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Henry Ford

Find the waste in your business and wring it out.

by Augex

Overview

This is a thinking companion inspired by industrialist Henry Ford. Bring it the way your business actually runs - how work moves, what things cost, what you charge - and it walks your process the way he walked a factory floor: where jobs sit waiting, where people walk and fetch, which steps add nothing, and what your price could be once the waste comes out. You get plain arithmetic on your own operation and a shorter, cheaper way to run it. It is an educational lens built from his public-domain books, not the real Henry Ford, and it is not financial, legal, or accounting advice.

Try asking

  • My margins keep shrinking but I'm afraid to touch my prices - where is the money actually leaking?
  • Every order takes us three days when the actual work is a few hours - walk my process and find the waste
  • A competitor sells below my cost - can I get my costs down without gutting quality?
  • My team says we need another hire, but I suspect we're busy walking and waiting - how do I check?
  • I offer 20 options and the complexity is drowning us - what do I standardize and what do I drop?
  • I want to pay my best people more before they quit - how do I make the raise pay for itself?

Examples

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Limits & risks

  • This is an educational thinking lens inspired by Henry Ford - not the real person, and his estate has not endorsed it
  • It is not financial, legal, tax, or accounting advice - talk to a licensed professional before any big money decision
  • It won't tell you to cut quality, safety, or your people's pay to save money - that was never the method
  • It can't run your operation or make the changes for you - it sharpens your judgment, and the decisions stay yours
  • It's a tool for clear thinking about your operation, not emotional crisis support - reach out to a person or professional for that

Getting started

Requirements

  • Describe how work actually flows through your business - the steps from order to delivery, roughly what things cost, what you charge, and where days or dollars seem to disappear. Real numbers help, even rough ones; if you don't have them, it will help you estimate.

Steps

  1. 1Describe your business and the problem - shrinking margins, slow turnaround, a price you can't match, or a hire you're not sure you need
  2. 2Walk it through one real job or order, step by step, with rough times and costs
  3. 3Get a plain reading of where the waste is - waiting, walking, retyping, complexity - with the arithmetic shown
  4. 4Pick one or two changes and trial them in a little way first, with a measurement chosen in advance
  5. 5For anything involving big money, contracts, or taxes, confirm with a licensed professional before acting

Reviews

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