Make It Right (Paperback)

Leading a manufacturing business does not need to be so difficult!

Manufacturing can be frustrating because of endless people challenges, equipment failures, schedule interruptions, and the looming threat of major quality issues. Labor costs rise, employee and customer expectations increase, manufacturing budgets are cut – and you’re required to deliver more with less.

In this groundbreaking book, Kevin Snook reveals how the manufacturing leader can be instrumental in making it right. He shares simple but powerful practices for rapidly turning a manufacturing division around, distilling his 30 years of frontline experience with managing hundreds of the world’s best (and worst) manufacturing companies into a step-by-step alignment process that you can use to implement change that’s effective in days rather than years.

Kevin has led companies around the world based on the methods of management legends like Peter F. Drucker, and has implemented lean, high-performance work systems. In the era of Industry 4.0, Kevin has built on those foundations to formulate a highly effective process for aligning your manufacturing organization to deliver sustainable growth.

Thes message in Make It Right is clear: Leading a highly successful manufacturing company can be simple, enjoyable, and thoroughly rewarding – if you align the process from the frontline to the bottom line.

Kevin Snook is an advisor to manufacturing CEOs around the world, helping them transform their businesses and deliver breakthrough results by giving frontline employees the information, tools, and capability to make the very best decisions every minute of the day. As a manufacturing leader in P&G for 17 years, Kevin had hands-on experience of producing billion-dollar brands such as Pampers, Always, Gillette, Pantene, Cover Girl, and Head & Shoulders. After successfully growing P&G’s Contract Manufacturing Division for Asia, Kevin left P&G to become managing director of a 4,000-employee manufacturing business. The business grew by implementing many of the best systems Kevin had formulated. In 2010, Kevin felt the calling to help more manufacturers and so started his own consulting business to use the best practices he had discovered and developed to transform manufacturing companies around the world. Through his 30 years of service, from frontline employee to CEO, Kevin has experienced and worked through a vast array of challenges for manufacturing companies. Born in England, Kevin relocated to Asia in 1996 for a two-year assignment. More than 20 years later, having experienced first-hand the rise of “Factory Asia,” Kevin still resides in Asia, in Bangkok, Thailand, with his family, and considers it a comfortable base for his global businesses.