Lean Thoughts

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is all about Culture Speed of methodology absorption.

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

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

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

Ten Tips for Top Managers

Richard-San, why are you taking such a simple concept, which is a natural human attribute based and developing a complex training model?...

The collective knowledge from real-world business experience, especially at the executive level, is extremely valuable to companies...

The more I attempt to learn and embrace today’s technology the stupider I seem to become.

Nope !!! You do not need Organizational First Aid. Really and actually you do, but you just have not yet realized it yet.

Cell Material Flow? Right or Left?? It’s all about perspective… hang on, I’ll explain. There is a science to production systems layouts....

Cells and Cellular Processing are at the heart of Lean. They appear simple but are far from simple.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel of a post-Covid world … so we need to get ready for yet another society shift..

There are a plethora of Leadership books in print, and more are invading the marketplace constantly. Ultimately Leadership remains a...

A common conflict in business is doing whatever it takes to satisfy the customer (damn the costs) or maximize profitability (damn service)