Lean transformations are increasingly bumping up against a common threshold. We may be very familiar with most of the lean tools. We may also have learnt to see our value streams and how to redesign...
Read moreDaniel T Jones
Little and Often
I still encounter a degree of confusion about one of the key mental models that gets in the way of Lean thinking. Making products in batches and accumulating a full load before dispatching a truck...
Read moreAsking Questions
It is always refreshing going to the gemba, actually walking a value stream all the way through an organization. This is where I learn to collect the questions to think about next. There is no doubt...
Read moreChanging Reasons for Going Lean
Two questions from very different perspectives illustrate how the reasons for going lean are changing. First from Denmark, where a few years ago they were very worried about losing manufacturing jobs...
Read moreLearning to Act using Lean Principles
“Learning to See” was the right title for the workbook that introduced the world to value stream mapping. For the first time it taught the world a way to see how to turn a set of separately...
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