John J. Huber

Mr. Huber formed the management-consulting group of J. Huber & Associates in October of 1986. The firm’s primary clients have included the financial investment groups of Forstmann & Little Co., Chase Venture (now JP Morgan), PPM America, First Atlantic Capital and Spencer Trask. These and other financial investment firms have engaged Mr. Huber with the task to dramatically improve the value and performance of their investments. Mr. Huber supported clients in over 40 states with over 100 successful projects in the areas of strategic operations planning reviews, work flow improvement, process reengineering, plant layouts, productivity improvements, manufacturing systems design and installations, employee involvement and plant redesign, relocation and startup. Typical results of the operation improvement efforts included dramatic reduction in inventory investments (50-90%), dramatic reduction in customer service lead-time (50-90%), and dramatic improvement in customer service performance (20-40%). For the past ten years, Mr. Huber has turned his attention the public library systems assisting them pursue and achieve Lean performances. Mr. Huber is the author of the popular and well-received book titled: Lean Library Management, Eleven Strategies for Reducing Costs and Improving Customer Service and the upcoming book, The Purpose-Based Library, steps to survival, success and growth.