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Use of Name Tokens on a Shared Shadow Board0
- Lean Basics, Sharing Best Practices, Visual Factory
- June 27, 2009
As part of this journey to find “True North” it is important to share best practices. A common saying in the Lean community is to “steal shamelessly”. We often follow this up with “adopt then adapt”, meaning to implement improvement then work to improve said improvement. Recently, I observed an activity that is worth sharing.
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Not All Groups are Teams0
- Lean Management
- June 24, 2009
Highly empowered and effective teams are the key to compete in today’s world of high technology processes, six sigma quality and continuous innovation. We have all heard the adage that “There is No I in Team” but what does that really mean? A group is two or more people who interact with each other to
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No “Fat” Behavior, Please0
- Lean Basics, Lean Management
- June 20, 2009
Transforming a traditional organization to a lean organization is about creating a cultural change. The only way to create a sustainable cultural change is to change behavior. Many lean initiatives have failed from complications in changing behavior. Bob Emiliani who has studied lean transformations and lean behaviors was the first to use the term “fat”
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Is it the End of an Era or Just another Lesson?0
- In the News, Lean Basics
- June 17, 2009
With the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, Jim Womack wrote a letter on The End of an Era. Womack is considered one of the originators of Lean Thinking in the US from studying Toyota in the 1980’s. His first book the Machine that Changed the World is the first books I ever read on Lean.
READ MOREGemba Academy – A Source of Learning0
- Lean Resources
- June 16, 2009
The Gemba Academy provides high quality online video training for individuals and groups. They currently have the School of Lean but will add later this summer the School of Project Management and the School of Six Sigma. We learned at the Gemba, or the place the work is done, and now we want to help
READ MOREA Great Resource at Gemba Panta Rei0
- Lean Resources
- June 14, 2009
Gemba Panta Rei is a weblog about better ways to make things better from Gemba Research. Gemba Research is a global team of professionals dedicated to teaching kaizen and Lean management practices based on the Toyota Production System. Gemba is the Japanese term for “actual place”, often used for the place where value-creating work actually
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