Whilst all Lean Thinkers love to go to the gemba some work places are more enjoyable and more interesting than others. For several years I’ve been helping the Halfway group in its companies...
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Tag: PDCA
What will happen after you leave?
The Lean Edge: What would you do if you were a CEO and you tried lean the right way and were passionate about it but you seemed to be failing at every turn getting all your stakeholders angry?...
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The Benefits of Our Action Research with Auto Retail
In 1998 Dan Jones asked a couple of his researchers to understand if and how Lean thinking can be applied to auto retail. Since then we have worked with car dealers on a variety of projects and now...
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8 Key Lean Learning Sessions
The theme for the 2014 Lean Summit is Practical Next Steps. The purposes of our annual summit are: To raise consciousness of the latest developments in Lean Thinking To provide insight into...
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Kaizen events: good thing or bad thing for Lean Transformation?
The Lean Edge: “Kaizen events: good thing or bad thing? In what cases do kaizen events help and when do they hinder? How to best use kaizen events to leverage results and support the lean...
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