Lean Thoughts

Make your Plan Work your Plan MEET YOUR NUMBERS

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

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

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.

Really … it is common sense and you do not need 6 Sigma to figure this one out.

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.

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

Today’s pop music isn’t being made for people like me and therefore, I am not qualified to judge it.

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.

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..