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The Characteristics of a Lean Enterprise 0
- Lean Definition
- July 26, 2010
While Lean can be beneficially applied to any process within an organization, its greatest benefit comes when it is applied across the enterprise. In The Machine That Changed the World in 1990, Jim Womack, et al., emphasized “that Lean thinking can be applied by any company anywhere in the world but that the full power
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Lean Quote; July 23, 2010; Change: Isn’t It Obvious 0
- Lean Quote
- July 23, 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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Organize with A Thing A Day Challenge 0
- Lean in Practice
- July 22, 2010
When it comes to organizing, starting can be the most difficult. For most of us looking at a cluttered area can be a daunting task from the shear magnitude of the effort. Over at the organization blog Unclutterer an ambitious reader is challenging people to get rid of one item a day. In less than two
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Common Myths of Bottlenecks 0
- Lean Basics
- July 21, 2010
The complexity of operations has increased tremendously since the days of Henry Ford and therefore requiress more thinking. The identification of the bottleneck becomes much more difficult as we move from the high volume low variety repetitive manufacturing scenario towards low volume high variety job shops and finally to the project environment. In a recent post I
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Book Review: Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream 0
- Book Review
- July 19, 2010
I just finished reading the latest publication from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream by Robert Martichenko and Kevin von Grabe. The authors define the critical principles of a lean fulfillment stream and the total cost of fulfillment. A fulfillment stream is: all of the activities that move materials and information
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Lean Quote, July 16, 2010: Leadership 0
- Lean Quote
- July 16, 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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