Lean Thoughts

The trust has been broken between employee's and employer's during Covid so no wonder that employee's are seeking a security blanket.

a secret to maintaining a good relationship is to instill the “no counting” rule.

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

With up to a 49% turnover rate in the certain sectors last year, businesses are straining to attract and retain talent.

here are the top soft skills employers are currently looking for. and then Bring there Soft Skills to the Surface.

Now that lean has been affecting production processes for decades, how far has factory layout/design come? In my experience, not very far!

The main consequence is that Process owners adapted processes towards survival not necessarily with a focus on sustainable improvement

Some things that we are losing through emerging new technology are NOT good, namely etiquette.

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

Does Lean apply only to manufacturing or is it applicable to other parts of our business?

The basic method of building cars hasn't changed much over the last 93 years:

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

Maybe not so always eloquently stated but the theme is a constant mantra in all organizations.

A year may seem like a long time but it is also a very short time

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.

There is a lot of Hysteria within the Lean Community about A3 thinking well I am here to shatter the myth.

feed-back and insights from first day impressions of new employees and visitors can be so valuable.

the consumer price index for food-at-home recently saw its biggest 12-month increase in more than 40 years,

Until recently, RFID was more about potential than a practical reality because high costs got in the way of adopting this technology.