Lean Thoughts

Vehicles are easy to build while still being complex … and at the base it is all about how you manage component replenishment.

"There’s a Link Between Effective Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep. In our hyper-connected, 24/7 world, many of us are losing sleep.

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.

Calculating you KANBAN Level

Right-brained people are often misfits

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

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

Suppliers typically cursed, abused and given a lot of grief, while in reality they can be a great resource of value, and innovation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to leverage the "hidden factory" as part of your winning team.