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This week, LEI is in Japan with 19 eager learners. The purpose of this trip is not just to see Just-In-Time. The purpose is to understand the social and technical context that gave birth to and continues to develop lean. Please visit the Post for a daily selection of postcards that share what we are learning.
Learn from leading lean product developers in a variety of industries at this important inaugural conference dedicated to lean product and process development.
You’ll leave with powerful and proven ways of engaging your extended enterprise in creating a new and better future.
Dear Gemba Coach,How do I know if I have the right attitude during gemba
walks? We’ve started doing those systematically, but I realize how many
of our managers add to the pressure on associates rather than make
things better, and maybe I do too. Any help?
The Gold Mine Trilogy Study Guide is designed to work through the books one chapter at a time. The material is structured to support a regular cadence of team discussions.
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Learn how these focused, in-depth workshops sharpen critical skills for improvement and innovation.
Learn how companies are using Lean Product & Process Development (LPPD) to create a sustainable system for consistently delivering great products and profitable value streams.
Want to learn more? Visit our LPPD community page.
Womacks's Yokoten: What does a lean employer look like? In this month’s column, the author reflects on the long-term commitment to employees a company engaged in lean thinking should make.
Jim Lancaster, Lantech CEO, candidly describes what the erstwhile “kings of kaizen” did to revive a wilting continuous improvement effort – that quadrupled profits – by introducing a daily management system rooted in maintaining basic process stability and engaging people at all levels. Includes a bonus follow-up Q&A with Jim.
This month's Toyota Kata video is about the early days of TK practice at Zingerman's Mail Order. Decision-making can be moved more to the teams in an organization, if that's combined with teaching people a scientific way of making decisions and navigating. Practicing the starter routines of TK helps develop scientific-thinking skills and mindset.
2018 Lean Coaching Summit
Coaching Those Who are not on Board, in Denial or “Addicted to the Status Quo” and Actively or Passively Resisting Change with Ron Oslin & Larry Anderson
Coaching Your Team on Basic Elements of Personal Leadership with Cheryl Jekiel
Creating Transformational Legacy: Coaching Teams to Embrace and Build Upon a Legacy of Enterprise and Personal Improvement with Tom Richert & Joanna McGuffey
Managing to Learn at the Gemba with Mark Reich & Scott Heydon
