Creating end-to-end value streams ...
"When you have learned to see value streams in individual facilites, it’s time to see, and then to optimise, entire value streams from raw materials to customer."
David Brunt Lean Enterprise Academy
Seeing The Whole
For the tens of thousands of users of value stream mapping at the facility level, Seeing the Whole provides the logical next step, extending the field of view all the way up and down the value stream. more ...
Unscrambling Supply Chains
The other day I was with a group of senior executives puzzling over an end-to-end value stream map... they were shocked at what it revealed more ...
Value Stream Management
Are your lean initiatives being led by the right people and are they realising the true potential of lean up and down your value streams? more ...
Competing with China
Although the lean revolution began long before the recent rise of China, they go hand in hand. Lean is as essential to Chinese firms as it is to Western ones responding to their challenge more ...
Why Responsiveness Matters
In this presentation to the Lean Logistics Conference in Poland, Dan Jones shows why traditional logic is not only fundamentally flawed but is also challenged by changes in consumer behaviour and competition between low cost locations more ...
The Invisible Opportunity
In this article from the ECR Journal, Dan Jones argues that the packaged goods industry in Europe is suffocating under a dead weight of hidden, institutionalized waste. Removing this waste could unleash huge opportunities for innovation and growth more ...
Seeing The Whole