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How the Hoshin Kanri Process Coupled with Coaching Drives Lean Transformation, Part 2
Discover how a coach can help leaders execute a successful organizational transformation using the hoshin kanri process.
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Let’s Celebrate Work
Is your work meaningful or menial? LEI Senior Advisor John Shook challenges us to aim to make all work meaningful…
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Tips for Following Through on Improvement Plan Execution
There is a critical difference between follow-through and follow-up during the A3 problem-solving process as David Verble, a veteran lean…
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How to Engage Everyone to Create a “Continuous Innovation Machine”
In a presentation to hundreds of engineers at a Fortune 100 manufacturer, Jim Morgan, an engineering PhD and former product…
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Develop Your People Patiently Rather Than Rely on Super Taylorism
Lean starts with quality, argue the authors, who note that by worrying about and improving quality, we are also reducing…
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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…
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How Cascading A3s Deploy Responsibility to Think as Well as Assign KPIs
During a recent virtual workshop on how to use the A3 problem-solving methodology, a CEO asked how to cascade A3s…
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How the Hoshin Kanri Process Coupled with Coaching Drives Lean Transformation, Part 1
A veteran coach shares a few intangible truths you'll need to know to execute an organizational transformation using hoshin kanri.
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Standardized Work is a Goal To Work Toward, Not a Tool to Implement
Standardized work can be an ugly thing in the hands of control-oriented bureaucrats and a beautiful thing when it enables…
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How Lean is Apple?
Apple may not worship at the altar of lean, but a close look at its operations and strategy show clear…
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Taking Time for a Year-End Reflection with the Most Popular Lean Articles, Podcasts, and Videos of 2020
This year's content featured plenty of guests, returns from lean legends, and handfuls of ways that lean has been applicable…
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How to Optimize the Use of Staff Skills and Time by Making Capacity Visible: An Example from Accounting
Learn how a Finance and Accounting team used lean thinking to make capacity visible, which, in turn, helped it better…
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