Lean Thoughts

Taiichi Ohno's book “Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production” would be better translated as "Aiming for Non-Scale Management

Leaders will do a lap through the facility to see how things are performing and get data inputs just in case someone presents a question.

Lack of knowledge and why do commentators keep suggesting that JIT can’t work in a chaotic world?

methodologies and the typical benefits that can be achieved

Colin Powell passed away on October 18th he had a profound career. His lessons in Leadership are worth reflecting on as part of his legacy

One of the key initial rules in deploying Lean Methodologies is to assign a specific owner to a process, task or assignment ...

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?

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

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

Annual Strategic Budget Thought Starters

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

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

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.

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.

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”

Ten Tips for Top Managers