Did you know that just five categories of issues account for 80 percent of your unnecessary costs? That’s sludge in your business that steals money from your bottom line despite all your hard work, demoralizes staff and provokes customers to start looking for greener grass elsewhere.

Lean will never surface 4 out 5 of the culprits:

- Over time, sludge creeps into even the leanest organizations, just like the oil in your car gets dirty just by driving around town.
- Conventional continuous improvement efforts and KPIs typically fail to target and track the areas where sludge is insidious, just like your car can only track low oil vs. dirty oil.
- The 5/80 solution gets under the hood and not only shows you where to look, but identifies what to do next.

As The Profit and Growth Accelerator, #1 best-selling author and international speaker, Anne C. Graham has a unique ability to tell it like it is with practical, straightforward strategies and tactics that deliver results in the manufacturing sector.

With over 25 years in the trenches and in executive roles as a turnaround expert working in very diverse industries, from the Fortune 500 to small and mid-size companies, one of her clients credits Anne with having shown him the “Holy Grail of profitability.”

Frequently quoted in major media including Profit and Bloomberg, Anne’s case studies deliver aha moments that are quick to implement and deliver results in less time than most business leaders are spending on email.