Why is it so hard to see the financial consequences of lean? Failure to answer this dilemma has derailed many lean initiatives. This is not such a problem if top management really understands the...
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Automotive
What Makes Lean Work?
Toyota’s lasting contribution to the practice of management is that it created a unique synthesis of three fundamental approaches to improvement — the analysis of quality and the use of the...
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The Waste of management
Just imagine that instead of pursuing several hundred projects your organisation was able to focus everyone’s’ efforts on the vital three to five strategic objectives that would make the biggest...
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Three Shingo Awards for LEA
The Lean Enterprise Academy has just won three Shingo Awards in recognition of its pioneering work in implementing lean thinking. At the Shingo Prize Awards Conference in Salt Lake City, USA on 20...
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Learning to Work Together
On our trip to Japan to launch The Machine that Changed the World in 1990, the Chairman of Toyota, Dr Soichiro Toyoda, told me “The only competitors we really fear are the Germans, if they ever...
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