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Oct 10, 20212 min read

Manage your Process Schedule

Are you controlling your schedule or is your customer? but customers want it Faster, Better and Cheaper, modify your schedule.

All People are Professionals and they want a Professional Environment

Richard Kunst

Sep 19, 20214 min read

All People are Professionals and they want a Professional Environment

All people can give is their "Gift of Time" but ultimately they decide who gets that gift ... how welcoming are you in accepting this gift?

Richard Kunst

Sep 12, 20212 min read

Ethics First ... but includes diversity

Have you Ever ... ? Answer honestly to yourself.

Richard Kunst

Sep 12, 20212 min read

VALUES BUILD CULTURE

Success relies on respect for people … but what does that actually mean?

Richard Kunst

Sep 5, 20214 min read

ENHANCE or Create a LEAN Culture

For Lean Culture, Consider a rock-and-roll band. To excel at making good music the band must have ...

Richard Kunst

Aug 29, 20211 min read

What is a Customer?

People and Technology create process. Process creates your products and services

Richard Kunst

Aug 29, 20212 min read

Birth, Death and your Gift of Time

Birth, Death and that gap in between is your "Gift of Time" to us.

start STRATEGIC PLANNING with reflection.

Richard Kunst

Aug 22, 20211 min read

start STRATEGIC PLANNING with reflection.

Make your Plan Work your Plan MEET YOUR NUMBERS

Richard Kunst

Aug 15, 20215 min read

Lean Indicators

The less wasteful a company is, the more profitable - assuming, of course, decent product

METRICS ARE NECESSARY | but where and what may be reflective of what you want.

Richard Kunst

Aug 15, 20214 min read

METRICS ARE NECESSARY | but where and what may be reflective of what you want.

Metrics also serve as a powerful way to demonstrate improvement success to people who might otherwise roll their eyes.

Richard Kunst

Aug 7, 20214 min read

“Fitting in” is highly overrated

Here are some lessons I’ve learned during my half-century on this planet:

Know your Business Aura | Strategic Factors Impacting Change

Richard Kunst

Jul 31, 20214 min read

Know your Business Aura | Strategic Factors Impacting Change

Yes your organization does have an Aura. Know it to manage a successful evolution.

Is your process is like a plate of Spaghetti ??

Richard Kunst

Jul 31, 20214 min read

Is your process is like a plate of Spaghetti ??

Cadence being the gait that needs to be observed with your information and communication flow and the repeatability of tasks.

Lean does not start with 5S, here is why.

Richard Kunst

Jul 25, 20214 min read

Lean does not start with 5S, here is why.

unless it directly contributes the primary guiding principal (Velocity) it becomes a waste of time, investment and ultimately money.

Why One-Piece-Flow Will Not Work: 10 Solid Reasons

Richard Kunst

Jul 17, 20213 min read

Why One-Piece-Flow Will Not Work: 10 Solid Reasons

Turn these ten reasons why one-piece-flow will not work by 45 degrees, and you get the Ten Reasons for Poor Cash Flow.

Knowing your Human Talent to create a Lean Culture

Richard Kunst

Jul 10, 20214 min read

Knowing your Human Talent to create a Lean Culture

It has been said that the factory of the future will only require 2 occupants, 1 Human and 1 Dog.

Skill Acquisition and Definition: The Dreyfus Model

Richard Kunst

Jul 10, 20214 min read

Skill Acquisition and Definition: The Dreyfus Model

It is all about Culture Speed of methodology absorption.

Richard Kunst

Jun 28, 20214 min read

Did you really pivot?

COVID-19 has spawned its own vocabulary. “Physical distancing","super spreaders" and “elbow bump” have all come to mean very specific...

Richard Kunst

Jun 28, 20214 min read

Standing in the Circle: Ohno’s Method

Ohno would quickly ask additional probing questions educating the engineer that perhaps they had “looked” but not “observed”

Richard Kunst

Jun 27, 20216 min read

You are going to REORGANIZE again !!

Workplace reorganization that transpired during Covid to protect people will now be expected as part of a Customer’s Value evaluation.

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