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Ask Art: What Happens When Standard Cost Accounting Meets Takt Time?
Trying to become a lean enterprise while retaining traditional standard cost accounting is an exercise in futility. It was developed…
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31. CEO Transition – an obstacle or an opportunity?
Too often, a change in executive leadership can bring a lean transformation to a grinding halt. But that has not…
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Are morning team huddles that go on forever a waste of time?
Dear Gemba Coach: Our company has made morning team huddles mandatory. I don't see how that helps. On my team,…
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How Lean Can Help Deliver Social Justice While Boosting Quality Health Care
In this podcast, developed from a talk at the 2018 Lean Transformation Summit learn how the Lynn Community Health Center…
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The Eight Wastes of Lean
Originally there were seven wastes identified by Taiichi Ohno for the Toyota Production System. As lean evolved into the rest…
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Time To Make Time
When the people in a lean system don't value time, everyone is cheated, says John Shook, in this fascinating reflection…
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Boeing Ex-Executive Alan Mulally Discusses a “Working Together Management System”
In this rare and revealing interview, Alan Mulally discusses lean management principles, including: the role of a CEO during a…
Read article Dealing with Standard Costing in Lean Organizations
If you are in the accounting department in a lean manufacturing company, and your company uses a standard costing system,…
Read article 30. On the Job: My Personal Turning Point–Reflecting on a Decade as a Lean Coach
Josh Howell shares his decade-end reflections, focusing on why he left Starbucks in 2013. His reasons may surprise you. He…
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Last year I sat in the offices of several "lean champions" at their companies, agents of change who are trying…
Read article How can kanban be useful in software since we never produce the same part twice?
Dear Gemba Coach: How can kanban be useful in software since we never produce the same part twice?
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Does A Lack Of Physical Inventory Make Office Work “Different”?
While "waste" is easy to see and address in a factory setting, people working in an office environment have just…
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