Lean Thoughts

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

Metrics also serve as a powerful way to demonstrate improvement success to people who might otherwise roll their eyes.

Here are some lessons I’ve learned during my half-century on this planet:

It is not "IF" but "WHEN" ... why you need to commit to cybersecurity.

Yes your organization does have an Aura. Know it to manage a successful evolution.

It is the physical path that a Material Handler follows from a central parts location to various consuming locations.

unless it directly contributes the primary guiding principal (Velocity) it becomes a waste of time, investment and ultimately money.

Really … it is common sense and you do not need 6 Sigma to figure this one out.

Turn these ten reasons why one-piece-flow will not work by 45 degrees, and you get the Ten Reasons for Poor Cash Flow.

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

Richard-San, why are you taking such a simple concept, which is a natural human attribute based and developing a complex training model?...

The collective knowledge from real-world business experience, especially at the executive level, is extremely valuable to companies...

The more I attempt to learn and embrace today’s technology the stupider I seem to become.

Nope !!! You do not need Organizational First Aid. Really and actually you do, but you just have not yet realized it yet.