Lean Thoughts

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

It is our job as Lean leaders to recognize and handle each accordingly.

Consider that 60 to 80 percent of all cost related with meeting a customer demand is an administrative or non-production-related function.

Kaizen often placed under the banner of Lean it truly is the migration from Batch to JIT to Jidoka.

Ha !! got your attention. No I am not going to target you as being cheap but rather looking for value. So what is this remarkable tool?

During tough times is when innovation breeds and new leaders emerge . Primarily, as organizations hunker in attempt to ride out the storm.

Ultimately you either pay a sinful amount to attract and retain labour or you take a closer look at your processes to identify opportunities

While Amazon may be a good channel for companies not ready to sell direct, it's important to be aware of the drawbacks.

there are still many opportunities to prepare your businesses for a banner year. Here are five ...

“CENTER OF TRUTH” a location where you can research to see if a “Disturbance to Flow” has previously been experienced and corrected

Sometimes you need to leave something simple alone, before complexity creeps in

Lack of knowledge and why do commentators keep suggesting that JIT can’t work in a chaotic world?

Cyber-Security it truly is not a matter of "IF" you will be breached but rather "WHEN"!

I wander and hear ongoing complaints about the inability to attract and retain labor, I see absolutely no effort to improve professionalism

Successful people have identified the skills, talents, and characteristics that enable them to succeed

Before you start on any Problem Solving journey focus on your Problem Statement with only one (1) Object and one (1) Deviation or you are ju

One of the key initial rules in deploying Lean Methodologies is to assign a specific owner to a process, task or assignment ...

All people can give is their "Gift of Time" but ultimately they decide who gets that gift ... how welcoming are you in accepting this gift?

For Lean Culture, Consider a rock-and-roll band. To excel at making good music the band must have ...

The less wasteful a company is, the more profitable - assuming, of course, decent product