Lean Roundup #193 – June 2025

A selection of highlighted blog posts from Lean bloggers from the month of June 2025.  You can also view the previous monthly Lean Roundups here.  

 

Project Management is Daily Management at Menlo Innovations – Mark Rosenthal shares his benchmarking trip to Menlo where their project management process stood out to him.

 

How One-Piece Flow Improves Quality – Michel Baudin explains that there is a phase in the maturation of a manufacturing process where one-piece flow is the key to improving quality.

 

How to Scale Strategy Deployment Across Multi-Site Organizations – Matt Banna walks through the proven formula for successful Strategy Deployment, with a specific lens on how to scale it effectively across a distributed organization.

 

What Your C-Suite Wants From Your Improvement Program (But Hasn’t Said) – Danielle Yoon shares what your C-suite actually wants from your improvement work, even if they haven’t explicitly said it, and how you can deliver on those expectations in a way that secures long-term executive support.

 

Quality Always Matters – Christopher Chapman shares a cautionary tale of poor quality from Ford that reminds why Quality is Job 1.

 

Innovation Fundamentals - Radical Collaboration & the 3H Model – Pascal Dennis introduced 3H model of innovation personalities – the hipster, the hustler, and the hacker.

 

The Communication Gap: Why Leaders Must Speak Clearly and Consistently – Alen Ganic discusses why and how effective communication can move an organization forward with clarity and purpose.

 

When a Form Reset Reveals a Deeper Problem – Kevin Meyer takes a simple weight training example to talk about mechanics of resetting in business and use standards, reflection, and discipline.

 

Reflections on Lean Transformation and Management: Introduction – Josh Howell explores how to define the right problem and build the leadership and systems needed to solve it from real stories from Starbucks, Kroger, and Legal Sea Foods.

 

In the Arena: Grit, Teams, and Value Streams in Lean Entrepreneurship – Jame Morgan explores what it takes to lead a lean start-up—from building the right team and obsessing over customer value to designing the full value stream.

 

Kaiteki: The Japanese Philosophy Behind Motivated Employees and Lean Success – Mark Graban explains company’s remarkable focus on people with a philosophy called Kaiteki or comfort, pleasant working environment.

 

Asking Man—Machine—Material—Method… and Then Some… for the Toyota Practical Problem Solving – Christoph Roser looks at problem solving with a few possible expansions and alternatives to 5M, fishbone diagram, or also known as Ishikawa diagram.