Lean Thoughts

Have you Ever ... ? Answer honestly to yourself.

Success relies on respect for people … but what does that actually mean?

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

Annual Strategic Budget Thought Starters

Birth, Death and that gap in between is your "Gift of Time" to us.

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

Metrics also serve as a powerful way to demonstrate improvement success to people who might otherwise roll their eyes.

Here are some lessons I’ve learned during my half-century on this planet:

It is not "IF" but "WHEN" ... why you need to commit to cybersecurity.

Yes your organization does have an Aura. Know it to manage a successful evolution.

Cadence being the gait that needs to be observed with your information and communication flow and the repeatability of tasks.

unless it directly contributes the primary guiding principal (Velocity) it becomes a waste of time, investment and ultimately money.

Really … it is common sense and you do not need 6 Sigma to figure this one out.

Turn these ten reasons why one-piece-flow will not work by 45 degrees, and you get the Ten Reasons for Poor Cash Flow.

It has been said that the factory of the future will only require 2 occupants, 1 Human and 1 Dog.

It is all about Culture Speed of methodology absorption.

Ohno would quickly ask additional probing questions educating the engineer that perhaps they had “looked” but not “observed”

Workplace reorganization that transpired during Covid to protect people will now be expected as part of a Customer’s Value evaluation.

Ten Tips for Top Managers

Richard-San, why are you taking such a simple concept, which is a natural human attribute based and developing a complex training model?...