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How do we get started with standard work?
How do we get started with standard work? The literature seems to say there can’t be meaningful kaizen without standards,…
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When problems arise, what helps you keep your focus on the work?
Learning how to create and adhere to management standard work requires a clear understanding of where all team members add…
Read article Becoming Lean Means Reorganizing Around Value Streams
After successfully implementing lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries, former Wiremold CEO Art Byrne identifies…
Read article Why haven’t kanban and value-stream mapping improved delivery from a low-volume/ high-mix process?
Dear Gemba Coach,We work in a low-volume/ high-mix process with component machining and assembly. Our OTD is somewhere between 70%…
Read article Lean Leadership Lesson: First Thing, Grasp the Situation; Last Thing, Grasp the Situation
In this appendix to his eletter on lean leadership, LEI CEO Joh Shook explains how leading in a lean management…
Read article 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…
Read article A Quick Guide to Running Experiments
The value-stream improvement method described in Perfecting Patient Journeys differs from the traditional committee approach to making organizational changes. Both…
Read article Lean Management’s Key Concepts
The technical components and underlying philosophy of lean, based on the Toyota Production System (TPS), work together to create a…
Read article My CEO has asked me to take a hard look at the lean program at our hospital – where should I start?
Dear Gemba Coach: I am ops director of a large hospital. We have been doing lean for several years now,…
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GET BETTER AT ACHIEVING LEAN GOALS
We often mistake confident predictions and plans for accurate ones. But the more humility we have about our predictions, the…
Watch video How Lean Changes You as a Leader
Few business leaders in the world have applied lean strategy as successfully as has Art Byrne, former CEO of The…
Read article Would you have a few tips about coaching on the gemba?
Dear Gemba Coach: Would you have a few tips about coaching on the gemba?
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