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If I turn off MRP in favor of kanban, will the factory collapse around us?
Dear Gemba Coach: Our sensei wants us to turn off MRP and work with kanban cards. I’m really nervous about…
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Managing By Not Wandering Around
“We’re still very early in our journey,” says Dan McDonnell, VP of Operational Excellence at Ingersoll Rand. “But we’re following…
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Why Fundamental Shifts in Thinking Take Longer Than You Think
Think learning the fundamentals of lean thinking and practice is easy? Think again. Deep shifts in thinking will take some…
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Reading the Signs
How often does your organization settle for an inferior process design or process fix, bandaged together with labels and signs?…
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Lead Lean by Being Lean
Lean just doesn't work if leaders don't actively, consistently demonstrate lean thinking themselves. In his first piece for the Post,…
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Effective Leaders Tackle Challenges Systematically
"It's not enough to simply set a challenge," writes Dario Spinola. "We need effective ways of working toward challenges." Read…
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The Thinking Behind Toyota’s Hiring Process
Lean coach Tracey Richardson reflects on Toyota's hiring process when she joined the company 28 years ago, why it was…
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Reducing Wasted Motion at a Conference: Collaborative Note Taking
Mark Graban reflects on the pros and cons of collaborative note-taking at conferences and offers up an invitation/experiment to Lean…
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Hooray for Honda
"We in the lean movement talk an awful lot about Toyota. But Honda has always been my favorite company in…
Read article I don’t find much about lean strategy in the literature. Where should I look?
Dear Gemba Coach: I’ve been tasked to come up with a presentation on what is a “lean” strategy to our…
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Customers Should Determine the Businesses of the Future, Not the 1%
"We set up entrepreneurs to fail when we put all the emphasis on pitch day and the amount of money…
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Lean Transformation Starts with a Learning Culture
After attending a Lean Applied to Sales seminar, Tina Roach and Pete Mangan of ProMed Molded Products knew they needed…
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