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A
selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of April,
2017. You can also view the previous
monthly Lean Roundups here.
Stop Jumping to
Countermeasures – Gregg Stocker
shares four basic questions to help people understand the importance of
following a formal process based on scientific method to thoroughly understand
a problem before jumping to countermeasures.
Why You Shouldn’t
Call Yourself “Sensei” Or Make Others Call You That – Mark Graban shares
thoughts titles like “expert” and why he dislikes them.
Team Size Matters,
Reprise – Johanna Rothman explains why the size of the team in
your organization matter from a communication viewpoint.
Building a Learning
Organization? Concrete Questions to Let You Know How You Are Doing – Terry Howell
shares 8 real world questions to ask to know if you are building a learning
organization.
What is Courage &
What’s It Mean for Strategy? – Pascal Dennis advocates that the
practicing manager seek to develop courage in yourself and your team.
The Transformation is
Everybody’s Job – John Hunter says transforming from old style management
systems to those Deming proposed many years ago requires that everyone be
engaged in that transformation.
Wacky Lean House – Bob Emiliani
explains the flawed Lean Model from LEI and suggests it’s time for change.
Is Talent or Process
Vital to Lean Success? It’s Not Really a Choice [Lessons from the Road] – Jamie Flinchbaugh
asks if your processes get in the way of talent or leverage it.
How to Motivate a
Team Resisting Continuous Improvement – Maja Majewski explains how to motivate
a team resisting continuous improvement.
Signs, Signs,
Everywhere Signs! – Paul Critchley shares opinions on why signs are
ineffective communication and that Lean encourages interaction.
What are the “Quick
Wins?” Ask the People Doing the Work – Mark Graban says if you’re looking
for quick wins all you have to do is ask the people who do the work.
Why Won’t Senior
Leaders Attend My Lean Training? – Jon Miller discusses the question
of why very few senior leaders attend training sessions on Lean or continuous
improvement.
Faster than a
Speeding Kanban... – Brent Wahba talks about the common factors within Lean
adoption failures and how we may get a better start.
What Too Many Lean
Leaders Forget about Gemba Walks – Darren Walsh says instead of
learning about the work and finding and fixing problems, leaders latch onto random minor issues and jump to solutions.
The
Importance of Prediction for Learning – Mark Rosenthal says the thing that
distinguishes “scientific thinking” from “just doing stuff” is the idea of
prediction.
Leading with
Respect – Mike Orzen explains how to create a culture of trust,
transparency, and teamwork in your organization.
Ask Art: Why do
so few companies that implement lean do it successfully? – Art Byrne shares
7 major issues that prevent companies who implement Lean from being successful.
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