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.
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Richard Kunst
- Apr 3, 2022
- 3 min
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.
Richard Kunst
- Mar 20, 2022
- 4 min
Creating a Survival Work Culture
When a company “goes lean,” the tradition of managerial control is easily transferred to process improvement.
Richard Kunst
- Mar 13, 2022
- 5 min
Getting Lean “Right”
to ensure success, there are many factors to consider before embarking on your lean journey.
Richard Kunst
- Mar 11, 2022
- 6 min
Vendors vs. Suppliers: Are You Buying Hot Dogs, or Building Relationships?
How to leverage the "hidden factory" as part of your winning team.
Richard Kunst
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
Lean Philosophy and Culture
Our Philosophy of keeping an object in constant motion while adding value the customer is willing to pay for also became part of our culture
Richard Kunst
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
Take Responsibility for Fixing Things
Blaming comes easy. Complaining is a cakewalk. But the culture needs encouragers,
Richard Kunst
- Feb 27, 2022
- 3 min
Rabbits, Turtles and Foxes The Characters in a Lean Transformation.
It is our job as Lean leaders to recognize and handle each accordingly.
Richard Kunst
- Feb 27, 2022
- 2 min
Vision ... It is not just for the big guys!
“ 50% of the waste in your organization is there because you live with it every day which makes it become invisible…
Richard Kunst
- Feb 20, 2022
- 4 min
Office LEAN
Consider that 60 to 80 percent of all cost related with meeting a customer demand is an administrative or non-production-related function.
Richard Kunst
- Feb 12, 2022
- 3 min
5S for SUCCESS just like you should dress for SUCCESS
Many of us know the power of Visual Management. It provides individuals and organizations the ability to Provide instant feed-back to...
Richard Kunst
- Feb 12, 2022
- 3 min
KAIZEN is not Random
Kaizen often placed under the banner of Lean it truly is the migration from Batch to JIT to Jidoka.
Richard Kunst
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
STOP trying to be a TOYOTA
I challenge all of you to look at your organization as if it were a McDonald’s franchise. Not menu but at process.
Richard Kunst
- Jan 23, 2022
- 3 min
Covid, The Opportunity and Threat of Disruptive Technologies
During tough times is when innovation breeds and new leaders emerge . Primarily, as organizations hunker in attempt to ride out the storm.
Richard Kunst
- Jan 23, 2022
- 6 min
Your Tomorrow Technology is alive today on a Farm Near you!
lot of discussion about autonomous vehicles and Industry 4.0 but based on what i have seen both are very active within the Dairy Farms
Richard Kunst
- Jan 15, 2022
- 3 min
How the pandemic has shifted the way we think about work
with COVID-19, sparking a growing pushback against arcane management philosophies. It has shifted the calculus for many professionals
Richard Kunst
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
Merry Christmas & Happy 2023 !!
This is the time of year not to be Lean … Just maybe, someday our world will be as peaceful
Richard Kunst
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
5 New Year's Resolutions for your Business
there are still many opportunities to prepare your businesses for a banner year. Here are five ...
Richard Kunst
- Dec 12, 2021
- 2 min
Why are you surprised with the Great Resignation?
He could not understand why he was facing this challenge since they were compensating with above average hourly wage. I was not confused
Richard Kunst
- Dec 5, 2021
- 4 min
TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE
Our TPM workstations remain pure where have incorporated layered audits, where the operator is truly recognized as a customer.
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