Improving the work is the work. Whilst many organizations have some sort of improvement activity many fall foul of the first of the 3 Common Pitfalls to Lean. Many organisations use the...
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Standardised Work Foundation for Kaizen – 2 Day Workshop
Standardised Work is one of the most powerful and well-known Lean tools and is core to any organisation that is serious about improving their business performance. By documenting the current best...
Read moreValue Stream Mapping in a Lean Transformation
We spend a lot of time visiting organisations and looking at work at the workplace. We’ve visited two workplaces recently that led us to conduct some reflection around how well organisations know...
Read moreInterview from the UK Lean Summit 2015 – Christleton High School
Toyota Lean Management Centre has been supporting the Lean transformation of Christleton High School, near Chester. In this interview for Planet Lean, Head of Student Services Sarah Williams...
Read moreUK Lean Summit 2015 – Dan Markovitz A Factory of One – Review of the Learning Session
In the Lean world we are all familiar with the metaphor of water as inventory and rocks as problems. And we’ve got pretty good at reducing these rocks for production. But why don’t we try to...
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