Lean Thoughts

My father always loved to tell me just easy running a business is/was. He would state that if you wanted to make more money al you had to do was either A) increase your revenue or B) reduce your costs ... well that seems simple enough Dad,

How do we instill lean into our culture and make it part of our company DNA, engaging the whole workforce

Luck IS a Strategy? Of course it can be. Most likely not the best decision. Unfortunately a strategy more companies are taking than considering other options.

The sterile and clinical approach to classifying and categorizing your inventory is to sector it with an A, B, C, designation. Personally, I find this extremely boring and find that replacing the ABC classes with "Runners, Repeaters and Strangers"

Meeting a plan is a thing of beauty and should not be accomplished by accident.

Kamishibai or also know as “T” cards is a simple check card system which is used for systematically reviewing critical items within the work

Mariela and I are fortunate that we are able to walk through many organizations and observe some very interesting processes. What...

That is just the resulting “eye candy”. Again this week I spoke with a couple of folks about their 5S activities and they focused on the...