Lean Thoughts

In this article, I share 5 5 Toyota principles that turn businesses around like clockwork and how to apply them to your business.

If their organizations is not working at a fever  pace nothing is being accomplished.  This can be a significant error of judgment.

EBITDA, It's simply your business performance without the noise.

Maybe they fear if they train the team they will leave, but worse is if you don't train them and they stay !

Anyone running a business today knows how difficult it is to attract and retain their people.

I appreciate your concern as a KPI it should also be acting as a contingent trigger for action.

Customers expect variety, reasonable price, high quality, comprehensive service and responsive delivery.

Here are the six key Lean strategies that can transform your operations:

Self-service kiosks have loomed as job killers since they were first rolled out 25 years ago.

No clear understanding of all intra-relationships

There is a statistically significant relationship between the elements of innovation and competitive advantage in businesses.

Relationships and Trust are huge factors to both success and survival.

When doing a transformation in an existing organization a leader has had a mind blowing experience after visiting a well organized plant.

The Rubber Factory allows you to reallocate resources with a structured methodology

Collaboration is an allergy that exists in nearly every organization. I cannot explain why … but it exists internally and externally …

The sole and only role of Walmart is to act as your household purchasing agent.

f you had sat on your hands and then instructed the dealer rep to conduct the procedure that you did he would have learned.

as soon as two people collaborate a culture is created.

“How goes my Monday will define how goes my Week!”

Run out of something? Does the operator will walk somewhere to replenish or use the “HEY” system signaling for a lift truck ? That sucks