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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The Power of Stories
For many of us, the run up to our festive season is a good time to take stock and reflect. Whilst attending our daughter’s school Christmas carol service I was reminded about the power of...
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Rethinking Construction
Back in 1998 I was part of the UK government’s Construction Task Force whose Rethinking Construction report identified many such win-win-win opportunities for collaboration between all parties. ...
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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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New Horizons for Lean Thinking
I often tell audiences that I collect questions, particularly ones I have to go away and think about. I also tell them I judge the quality of the audience by the quality of the questions they ask!...
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