Lean Thoughts

When doing a transformation in an existing organization a leader has had a mind blowing experience after visiting a well organized plant.

Best time on the floor is 30 minutes before shift end and first 30 minutes at start, when you typically hear nothing.

wandering through the grocery store? Do you pause, stare and wonder will they ever sell all of this produce before it spoils?

Why Baseball? The game has all of the attributes needed to define Employee Empowerment.

The Rubber Factory allows you to reallocate resources with a structured methodology

Goods through the cashier and total came to $587.00, a second opinion through a self-checkout only equaled $87.00

seeing an opportunity to leverage without taking initiative becomes a lost opportunity.

People crave for in person social interactions,

The sole and only role of Walmart is to act as your household purchasing agent.

But over the past 3 years, we've seen more change than we ever have seen. Here we share 5 important ones:

Lean Methodologies implemented could not deliver their full potential until a CENTER OF TRUTH could be established.

SURVIVING BUT NOT THRIVING approach to business AND in mindset growth.

Walking is the biggest cost driver when it comes to warehouse operations and a big detriment to picking efficiency.

“Standard Work is a detailed definition of the current best practices for performing a process.”

as soon as two people collaborate a culture is created.

“How goes my Monday will define how goes my Week!”

Ditch "Command and Control" and learn to embrace "Servant Leadership"

I quickly became overwhelmed about how fixated and anal the Senior Management Team was about Team Member Attendance.

Run out of something? Does the operator will walk somewhere to replenish or use the “HEY” system signaling for a lift truck ? That sucks

he term "chaku chaku" may sound funny to most employees, but it's a serious base line discipline that supports Automation.