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...
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Tools & Techniques
Interview 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...
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UK 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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Building the Fit Organisation
In preparation for our UK Lean Summit 2015 – Developing the Capability to Improve the Work I’ve been reading Dan Markovitz’s new book “Building the Fit Organization” which arrived in our...
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Lean IT Summit 2015
Lean in IT is an emerging field but how can we support lean transformation if CIOs are not on board? Information systems are in the dna of any process; delivering at the pace of their customers /...
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