Lean Thoughts

A successful Strategic Plan not only allows you to outline the direction that you want your business to take

By making sure people “stay busy” you are depriving yourself of information you must have to make rational management decisions.

Observe Process and question "Would I want my child to perform this function or even worse make it into a career?"

Right-brained people are often misfits

So what to do? … Like most you begin to review process(es) to identify and implement business improvements.

Adopting 5S+1 can be expensive ... Not only in the cost of materials but also in the diverted labour costs within your organization.

We can’t add growth because we can’t get equipment, can’t get people, and we’ve lost productivity.

Ctrl, Alt Delete may be your answer to cure "Adjustitus" you have incurred during the past several years.

here are the top soft skills employers are currently looking for. and then Bring there Soft Skills to the Surface.

Measuring and monitoring “Yield” within your facility can reveal interesting information about how well you utilize your materials and cash.

Now that lean has been affecting production processes for decades, how far has factory layout/design come? In my experience, not very far!

We have paused, denied, diverted, deviated, destructed, pivoted, innovated and of course prayed for normal to return.

she was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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