Lean Management

5 Ways to Create a People Centric Culture 0
- Lean Management, Respect For People
- March 7, 2016
Putting people first at a company, what I call being People-Centric, promotes the sharing of ideas, suggestions and improvements. People are at the core of every organization, and an organization’s employees – its people – are the most important investment it will make. Even as technology advances and capital shifts, it is the leadership and
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Leading by Example is a Trait of a True Lean Leader 0
- Leadership, Lean Management
- February 24, 2016
One of the most important qualities of a good leader is for you to lead by example, to be a role model, to be the kind of person that everyone else looks up to and wants to be like. One of the characteristics of leaders is that they carry themselves at all times, even when
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Four Reason Accountability is a Key Component of Lean Management 0
- Lean Management
- February 8, 2016
Lean management is a leadership approach that supports continuous improvement through collaborative problem solving. Rather than leading from the top down, Lean managers strive to actively engage their teams in the improvement process in order to promote personal and organizational success. The basic components of Lean management are: Standard work (SW). Tasks are broken into a
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Leader Standard Work is a Management System For Sustaining Gains 0
- Lean Management
- January 18, 2016
Courtesy of Beyond Lean Blog Sustainability is discussed often and one of the great issues in management. We have all seen facts related to the low rates of sustaining change or seen news about a company who lost its way. Unfortunately, we see all too often those companies who finally reach #1 to only lose
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5 Ways to Get Management Buy-in 0
- ASQ's Influential Voices, Lean Management
- December 7, 2015
This month Dr. Suresh Gettala writes about the Talking To the C-Suite About Quality in the monthly ASQ Influential Voices post. Management commitment is a “must” to any initiative. In fact, it is the driving force. Procedures, tools, and database are all useless if the management does not want to see an improvement culture in
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Management’s Expanded Role in Lean Thinking 0
- Lean Management
- November 10, 2015
Most often when people hear the term management it connotes a specific hierarchical structure of an organization. According to Wikipedia, management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. I prefer to use the metaphor of a bus
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