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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
Sep 5, 20213 min read
IT'S BUDGET TIME !!! Planning and insuring execution
Annual Strategic Budget Thought Starters
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Richard Kunst
Jul 17, 20214 min read
The “Forever” Rule An attribute of Product Realization
Really … it is common sense and you do not need 6 Sigma to figure this one out.
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.
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
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.
Richard Kunst
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Ten Tips for Top Managers
Ten Tips for Top Managers
Richard Kunst
Jun 19, 20214 min read
Does Process define the Culture? Or Does Culture define the Process?
Richard-San, why are you taking such a simple concept, which is a natural human attribute based and developing a complex training model?...
Richard Kunst
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Nope!!! You do not need Organizational First Aid
Nope !!! You do not need Organizational First Aid. Really and actually you do, but you just have not yet realized it yet.
Richard Kunst
Jun 6, 20215 min read
Kill Batch Production - Instead Promote Single-Piece Flow
The perfect process consists of a single object transitioning through a series of operations while constantly accumulating value
Richard Kunst
Jun 6, 20213 min read
Cellular Process Design
Cells and Cellular Processing are at the heart of Lean. They appear simple but are far from simple.
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