Lean Thinking

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• Statistical Process Control (SPC) solutions are now gaining adoption in services industries (IT-Analysis)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 160
  There is a lot of interest in ‘lean thinking’ these days. The global recession has forced companies to take a good long hard look at their operations to identify waste and cost savings while improving customer experience. Follow this link: Statistical Process Control (SPC) solutions are now gaining adoption in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kanban Family Job Chart

  
  shmula — Authority: 111
  I’ve tried this a few times, but I think this time, with the help of the kids and my sweet wife, we’ve got it right for our family. The Opportunity We have a big family – we’ve adopted a bunch and we’re very thankful for our chance to be parents.  We’ve got great kids. But, because we have a big ...
  2 weeks ago

• Complacency, Urgency, and Change

  
  shmula — Authority: 111
  This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Turnaround, Transformation, and Change Management John Kotter makes a good case that urgency is the key ingredient in any organizational transformation.  Conversely, the lower the urgency, the higher the likelihood that the firm will collapse or fail or not transform in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Management Improvement Carnival #82

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 456
  Mike Wroblewski is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #82 on the Got Boondoggle? blog, highlights include: A Problems First Culture by Mark Rosenthal “‘Problems first’ is one of the mantras used by Phil Jenkinson, the CEO character in The Lean Manager by Michael and Freddy Ballé. Now that I have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lean Inventories Do Not Excuse Failing to Deliver

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 456
  Low inventory levels do not mean failing to have products available for customers. Now, if you manufacturing in huge batches and can’t respond to customer feedback then it might mean failure to predict customer demand does mean failure to deliver. But lean thinking has shown how to avoid this problem. People need ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shining Metal Pointing Direction

  
  shmula — Authority: 111
  This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Turnaround, Transformation, and Change Management Hoshin Kanri is a management tool used at Toyota to align business strategy and mobilize the entire organization toward the business strategy. Hoshin Kanri means “Shining Metal, Pointing Direction” or “Directional ...
  3 weeks ago

• Learn Lean by Doing Lean

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 456
  In response to: Developing Your Lean Education Plan If you actually let the lean leaders practice lean management you are probably doing more to help them learn than anything else. Reading is great , but 10 times better when reading to find solutions you need to deal with issues you have in place. Same for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dichotomous Thinking at IDEO No More

  
  shmula — Authority: 111
  Recently, Tim  Brown, the CEO at IDEO came to a realization that Design Thinking can coexist with Six Sigma and Lean.  For a while, his stance was really of black-and-white thinking: it’s either Design Thinking or Lean Thinking.  This position is akin to a student who believes that if he doesn’t earn an “A” ...
  4 weeks ago

• Management Webcast: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 456
  Webcast introduction to lean manufacturing by Ron Pereira. This is a great 9 minute introduction to the topic, for those not familiar with lean thinking . It sets the context for lean thinking and provides some history on how lean manufacturing has developed. Get videos on learning about lean from the Gemba ...
  4 weeks ago

• Management Improvement Carnival #80

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 456
  Jamie Flinchbaugh is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #80 on his new blog, highlights include: A New Strategy for the Kaizen Blitz from Lean Homebuilding – on PDCA, kaizen, with lots of good comments To Err is Human…To Error Proof is Divine from Ankit Patel – fundamentals of error proofing from ...
  5 weeks ago

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