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Many organizations have pursued kaizen for years or even decades now, 25 years after the publication of Masaaki Imai’s classic book Kaizen. Yet many find that after a few years of progress with kaizen it becomes difficult to maintain momentum, … Continue reading →

The Lean Edge Question How can we convince decision makers that lean is not a program to justify, but a way of doing business to achieve superior performance? Reply The best way to answer this question is to summarise two … Continue reading →

United we stand. Divided we fall. Or so we are told. If we’re all too united the only reason we don’t fall may be because we are squeezed together like passengers on a Shanghai subway in rush hour who have … Continue reading →

Online Training Can Create Leading Marketers Effective marketing can influence the consumer to want to buy a company’s brand again and again, so to ensure marketing leaders and teams are at the top of their game it is worth investing … Continue reading →

We are often asked the million dollar question, “How do we motivate the front line workers?” This is a high value question because people are any organization’s greatest yet often worst utilized asset. Understanding how to practically tap into people’s … Continue reading →

What to Do When Your Lean Implementation is Like a Chicken ? What is skill matrix and before starting skill matrix what should be known? Nice two-part question. The first part is relatively easy and has little to do with … Continue reading →

I think the purpose of lean is to get better at choosing good over evil. Most of us understand that lean requires us to choose value over waste, good over bad, and better over good. But to what end? How … Continue reading →

Learning to See – Mike Rother and John Shook (The orginal guide to value stream mapping – 5 stars) Learning to See breaks down the important concepts of value stream mapping into an easy to understand format. The manual is … Continue reading →