A Fresh Start: Lean Thinking for the New Year
- Goals
- January 1, 2026

Today I am pleased to be able to share a guest post by Thomas Pesaturo. Tom is a Principal at Exceeda Consulting, Inc. in Seekonk, MA. He has over 20 years of lean operations experience in Fortune 500, small to large, multi-site, domestic and international companies. At Exceeda Consulting, they believe “only people raise the bar by continually improving
READ MORETo survive and thrive, we must be prepared at a minimum to modify, adjust, adapt and then adopt. It’s a little like trying to go up the down escalator. Stand still and you can be assured of moving backwards, farther away from your goal. Change is necessary if organizations want to continue to improve and
READ MOREOn 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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Quality problems usually appear in the form of loss (defective items and their cost). It is extremely important to clarify the distribution pattern of the loss. Most of the loss will be due to a very small number of causes. Thus, if the causes of these vital few defects are identified, we can eliminate almost
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According to Occam’s razor, all other things being equal, the simplest theory is the most likely to be true. A simple solution always takes less time to finish than a complex one. So always do the simplest thing that could possibly work next. If you find something that is complex replace it with something simple. It’s
READ MOREOn 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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