Lean Management

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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10 Common Lean Implementation Mistakes 0
- Lean Management
- October 21, 2015
Lean has been around since the late eighties/ early nineties, but despite the enormous popularity of Lean, the track record for successful implementation of the methodology is spotty at best. Companies still make mistakes when implementing Lean. These mistakes are generally due to simple misunderstandings of the Lean principles, but when something goes wrong, you
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Improvement Doesn’t Come from Focusing on Tools 0
- Lean Basics, Lean Management
- September 21, 2015
We all have stories of those who try to use Lean as a tool to improve their business but fail. Those of us who have experienced the true power of Lean understand that it is more than that. Lean is not about the tools it’s how they are applied. A large number of organizations have
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