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Why You Should Link Your Hoshin Kanri and A3 Management Processes
An organization that integrates a robust long-term-oriented strategy deployment process with a daily management process achieves greater performance gains than an organization with only one…
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How do I quantify kaizen's small improvements?
Dear Gemba Coach: How do I quantify kaizen's small improvements?
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How Building in Learning and Knowledge Reuse Improves Product Development Success
Three leading practitioners share successful examples of how they built learning and knowledge reuse into their development process.
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Beyond Problem-Solving: Other Facets of the A3 Process You Should Know and Practice
If you or your team think the A3 process is only a problem-solving tool, think again. “There is a lot more to the A3 management…
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Why reduce inventory further?
Dear Gemba Coach,We have a lot of machining operations in our process, and we carry inventory. What is the best way to show employees the…
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Looking at 5 Easy Steps to Simplify the A3 Process
Taking on an A3 can be daunting, and Eric Ethington is here to remind you that this is normal but preventable. He has five great…
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How to Develop and Execute New Strategies for the New Era in Business
These times demand a new way of looking at business strategy because the way we worked before the pandemic probably won’t work in the post-pandemic…
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The Health Factory
This quote from the article applies to the ideas in Managing to Learn: What sets the non-health care leaders apart is that as they do…
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How SBP Went From Intolerable Conditions to Constructive Discontent
In this keynote talk at the LEI summit, Zack Rosenburg of SBP talks about how this non-profit has evolved its thinking about defining and tackling…
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Art of Lean on Work & Waste, Part 8: Processing
Understand the two aspects of the waste that requires a careful understanding of customer requirements. Watch the final part of an eight-part series focusing on…
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4 Types of Problems: The Keys to Better Organizational Problem Solving
Join Art Smalley for this important, eye-opening webinar and learn why settling on a favorite problem-solving technique or two is a big mistake. Art will…
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Asking Effective Questions: The Foundation of Coaching with Margie Hagene
Lean Enterprise Institute faculty member Margie Hagene offers tips for using the four types of questions -- humble, diagnostic, prompting, and process inquiries -- in…
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Why Create Poka-yokes—and Why Disconnect Them?
I’m a manufacturing engineer and since I have started participating in kaizen workshops, I have noticed that production supervisors tend to disconnect some of the…
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A Spotlight on Leaders: Re-Thinking the Retail Food Industry
Watch a discussion about the approaches used to design and develop Connecticut’s hottest new restaurant concept: Haven Hot Chicken. Their “minds before wallets” approach centered on developing…
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Can 5S apply to coding?
Dear Gemba Coach: We’re exploring lean in software development. Can 5S apply to coding?
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Transforming Your Organization with Lean Thinking and Practices
This brief animation offers a guide to the five fundamental equations that help lean practitioners understand — and execute — a lean transformation.
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I’m struggling to understand exactly what people mean by a “lean system”?
Dear Gemba Coach: I’m struggling to understand exactly what people mean by a “lean system”?
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Why Lean Gets Business Backwards (and why that’s a good thing)
Michael Balle explains why lean is a completely different approach to business than the traditional one.
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A Spotlight on Leaders: What We Can Still Learn from Danaher and Wiremold
Watch Legendary lean pioneer Art Byrne, author of The Lean Turnaround and The Lean Turnaround Action Guide, in a lively conversation about how he and…
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Becoming – and Developing -- More Effective Leaders
Bill MacPherson, managing director of Mercer Celgar, a division of Mercer International, shares how adopting hoshin kanri helps transform how leaders lead and develop their…
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