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...
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Management System
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...
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Asking 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...
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Developing Problem Solvers
We traditionally see an organisation as a collection of departments or activities, each managed separately and each separated from the rest by inventories or time buffers between them. Performance is...
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Competing with China
There are two sea changes going on in the world economy. The first is the rise of the “low cost” producers in China and the second is the lean revolution which is now gaining momentum. Although...
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