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Policy Deployment: aka Strategy Alignment, aka Hoshin Kanri (Appendix 2 to the Eletter “Lead from the Front, Lead from Behind”)
As a way of illustrating the most common misconception about hoshin kanri, namely, that it’s a top-down deployment process, LEI CEO John Shook explains in…
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What are the Three A's of the A3?
John Shook explains the three A's of the A3 in this video clip from the presentation that he and Lisa Yerian, chief improvement officer at…
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Inventory Turns Charts
How can you tell if your firm is really getting lean — count the future state maps on the walls, calculate the number of kaizen…
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Make Using Lean Thinking to Help Solve Societal Problems Your New Year’s Resolution
The nation needs lean thinkers and practitioners to apply their problem-solving prowess to address issues of national concern.
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Improve Continuously by Mastering the Lean Kata
Lean is about learning, say Rose Heathcote and Daryl Powell. Learning to find real problems, learning to face the limits of our current knowledge in…
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How to Lead with Respect
Showing respect to employees falls far short of leading with respect. Discover the seven core practices that true lean leaders use everyday to lead with…
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What's your challenge?
Toyota can’t exist -- Toyota can’t be Toyota -- without a challenge. That’s true for each individual or work group and for the company as…
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Lean Enterprise Institute Calls for Ending the “Madness” in Supply Chain Strategies
Shook made his recommendations on lean supply chains to authorities on Japan, leading investors, economists, policymakers, and business executives at Bloomberg’s Rebuilding Japan Conference.
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Manufacturing’s Next Chapter
Using the experience of GE Appliance and other manufacturers, LEI CEO John Shook reminds lean thinkers that much remains to be written in “manufacturing’s next…
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Lean Enterprise Institute Announces Training for Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehousing, and Distribution
The two hands-on workshops will take place October 8-11, 2013, at a working supply chain operations center so attendees can experience lean management principles in…
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How Building in Learning and Knowledge Reuse Improves Product Development Success
Three leading practitioners share successful examples of how they built learning and knowledge reuse into their development process.
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Accounting for the Right Reasons
My first job after graduating from Purdue University was as a manufacturing engineer with the Japanese company, Aisin Seiki. Aisin U.S.A. was in the process…
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Lexicon Term
Jidoka
Providing machines and operators the ability to detect when an abnormal condition has occurred and immediately stop work. This enables operations to build in quality…
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Fight for Your Lean Team
Managers, supervisors and coaches should mindfully support the storming and norming that teams require in order to grow an existing work team into a high…
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Senior Advisors and Staff
Masia Goodman
Masia joined LEI in 2006 with a background in education, having taught French and Comparative World Religion at the high school level. During her early…
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As Your Customer’s Definition of Value Evolves, So Must Yours
If you don’t realize that your customer’s definition of value has expanded to include social responsibility and racial equity, you may learn so at a…
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Toyoda, Kiichiro (1894-1952)
The son of Toyota Group founder Sakichi Toyoda, who led the effort to enter the auto industry in the 1930’s. Kiichiro, believed that he could…
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Translating Collaborative Learning Into Practice
What does collaborative learning mean for lean thinkers in practice, on a day-to-day basis? In his final talk at the 2012 Lean Transformation Summit, John…
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