September 2010 - aleanjourney

Continuous Improvement is about Small Daily Changes 0
- Lean Basics, Sharing Best Practices
- September 28, 2010
Continuous improvement is about small changes on a daily basis to make your job easier. Many organization start with more formal kaizen events to create energy around changing the culture and making dramatic changes. While there is always a place for these types of events Kaizen means change for the better. which implies continuous. Kaizen calls for never-ending
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Where Do Good Ideas Come From?0
- Sharing Best Practices
- September 27, 2010
It’s no secret that collaboration helps in the formation of good ideas, but this charming little video from writer Steven Johnson explains why it works. Here are some key points from the video: ■To identify the spaces that have historically led to unusual rates of creativity and innovation, we can observe and analyze recurring patterns
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Lean Quote: Perception 0
- Lean Quote
- September 24, 2010
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Daily Lean Tips From Facebook Edition 3 0
- Lean Tips
- September 23, 2010
For my Facebook fans you have probably already read these Daily Lean Tips. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I started a new feature which I call Daily Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge
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Guest Post: How would you explain Lean to an executive for the first time?0
- Culture, Guest Post
- September 22, 2010
I recently posted this question on A Lean Journey LinkedIn Group: If you had 2-3 hours to give an overview of what lean means for an executive where would you start and what would you say? A friend and fellow Lean blogger David Kasprzak answered this question which is displayed here as a guest post:
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Unhook the Old 0
- Culture, Lean Management
- September 20, 2010
Culture can be defined as the sum of individuals’ work habits within an organization. Culture is often invisible to the members within the group because it is “the way we do things around here.” One implication of culture as a collection of habits and practices is that it has incredible inertia and momentum. Cultural inertia
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