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Restarting Your Lean Journey 0
- Lean Management
- August 20, 2013
Despite the enormous popularity of Lean, the track record for successful implementation of the methodology is spotty at best. Some recent studies say that failure rates for Lean programs range between 50 percent and 95 percent. A Lean journey is full of steps not all of which are forward. Failure will occur. Its ok, the
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Three Reasons You Need a Lean Coach 0
- Change Management, Lean Management
- August 19, 2013
Lean manufacturing is a very broad philosophy for business improvement that has many tools/techniques to aid you in making your production or service more efficient and better at offering your customer a great value. Being able to successfully implement Lean across a company is not something that you can pick up from reading a few
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Lean Quote: Finding Better Ways To Do Things Is Lean 0
- Lean Quote
- August 16, 2013
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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Managers Must Be Teachers 0
- ASQ's Influential Voices, Leadership
- August 14, 2013
In Paul Borawski’s post this month on The View from the Q Blog he asks about our experience with training. He shared some results regarding the matter from ASQ’s Global State of Quality research. (Remember, you can download the entire report for free at the above link.) From the research: “Organizations that govern quality with a
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Some Things You Can’t Delegate If Your Transformation Is To Be Successful 0
- Change Management, Culture, Lean Management
- August 13, 2013
Lean requires changing systems, organizational structures, processes, acquiring new technologies/machines, and even altering layout of the workplace. And although all of these components are important, the most important area of focus for Lean leaders are the people. Implementing Lean is a journey and has a huge impact on employees because Lean changes the way that
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The Worst Waste of All: Lack of Employee Involvement 0
- Lean Definition, Lean Management
- August 12, 2013
Taiichi Ohno (considered by many to be the father of Lean) highlighted overproduction as the worst of all the 7 Wastes. Overproduction includes in essence all others wastes so it could be considered the most problematic. However, many have missed one of the biggest opportunities for quick improvement by overlooking one of the deadliest wastes,
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