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Great Ideas for Making Idea-Prone Companies

Jun 19, 20223 min read

Great Ideas for Making Idea-Prone Companies

After participating in a EVSM Workshop is people have never taken the time to observe the daily waste generated in their processes.

Process Improvement is Idling while Process Survival is Dominant

Richard Kunst

Jun 19, 20224 min read

Process Improvement is Idling while Process Survival is Dominant

The main consequence is that Process owners adapted processes towards survival not necessarily with a focus on sustainable improvement

Habits of Successful Teams & simple Meeting Etiquette's

Richard Kunst

Jun 12, 20221 min read

Habits of Successful Teams & simple Meeting Etiquette's

Teams migrate through Forming, Storming, Norming and finally performing but they need more.

Richard Kunst

Jun 12, 20223 min read

17 EMAIL ETIQUETTE TIPS

Some things that we are losing through emerging new technology are NOT good, namely etiquette.

Changeover Costs? Do you really understand the impact?

Richard Kunst

Jun 5, 20222 min read

Changeover Costs? Do you really understand the impact?

You have to know your costs. It is the only way you will be able to justify a changeover reduction program.

Richard Kunst

Jun 5, 20225 min read

Facility Layout

Factories were designed a long time ago to take advantage both of gravity.

Richard Kunst

May 29, 20224 min read

Do Lean !!! Why ?????

Lean is not a cost reduction exercise. Lean is about increasing velocity within your process

Richard Kunst

May 29, 20223 min read

How to KILL Employee Trust

As companies must be fast, adaptable, agile, and courageous to compete, one of the most important elements is the ability to trust. Trust...

Richard Kunst

May 22, 20222 min read

Lean Manufacturing or Lean Enterprise?

Does Lean apply only to manufacturing or is it applicable to other parts of our business?

Richard Kunst

May 22, 20224 min read

Assembly line put the world on wheels

The basic method of building cars hasn't changed much over the last 93 years:

Richard Kunst

May 15, 20223 min read

I LOVE Throughput Accounting !

Cost accounting drives us to local optimization but this paradigm is the largest obstacle to productivity improvement.

Measure the pulse of your journey Conduct an Audit.

Richard Kunst

May 8, 20224 min read

Measure the pulse of your journey Conduct an Audit.

A year may seem like a long time but it is also a very short time

In His First Week Back as Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz Made a Brilliant Move. It Just May Save ...

Richard Kunst

May 1, 20224 min read

In His First Week Back as Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz Made a Brilliant Move. It Just May Save ...

with great sensitivity, understand from you, how can we do better," said Schultz.

Richard Kunst

Apr 17, 20224 min read

Slow Down … Go Faster

Most folks feel that if they and their organizations are not working at a fever pace nothing is being accomplished.

Richard Kunst

Apr 17, 20225 min read

Do you have a PERFECT PROCESS ?

As a leader you need to take time to “pause” to be “ON” your business rather than being “IN” your business.

Richard Kunst

Apr 10, 20222 min read

The truth of an A3 ... really

There is a lot of Hysteria within the Lean Community about A3 thinking well I am here to shatter the myth.

Inefficiency — Not Just The Labor Shortage — Is Breaking your output.

Richard Kunst

Apr 10, 20223 min read

Inefficiency — Not Just The Labor Shortage — Is Breaking your output.

"People leave Leaders not Companies". I loved the title of one recent article titled "We are not Family anymore" ... how true.

VISITORS ARE OUR BEST AUDITORS ... IF YOU DARE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE

Richard Kunst

Apr 3, 20223 min read

VISITORS ARE OUR BEST AUDITORS ... IF YOU DARE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE

feed-back and insights from first day impressions of new employees and visitors can be so valuable.

IF you have time to LEAN you have time to CLEAN !

Richard Kunst

Apr 3, 20223 min read

IF you have time to LEAN you have time to CLEAN !

Clean to INSPECT .. and you do have the time.

How the Ukraine conflict and supply chain chaos could play out in food prices

Richard Kunst

Mar 27, 20227 min read

How the Ukraine conflict and supply chain chaos could play out in food prices

the consumer price index for food-at-home recently saw its biggest 12-month increase in more than 40 years,

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