The Most Motivating Way…
"It turns out that the most motivating way in which people can be involved with their workplace is the improvement of their own work processes." Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation…
What is “Kaizen” and Why Should We Do it?
"Kaizen is a Japanese term meaning change for the better or continuous improvement." We use a few Japanese words in the Lean Business Culture because Lean was originally developed at…
Improving Our Work…and Improving My Blog!
(See below for how I plan to improve my blog posts.) What is an "Improvement?" An improvement is a CHANGE that makes our work easier, safer, faster, or better quality.…
The “Deeper Challenge” in Lean
"We have also discovered that, behind all the tools for operational excellence and the different management system needed to support their use, lies a much deeper challenge: to develop the…
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
"The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only truly sustainable competitive advantage." De Geus (1988) quoted in The Toyota Product Development System by James M. Morgan…
“Learning” is the Key
"In fact, we now know that the Toyota Production System is a learning framework for helping employees to improve their work and to work together to create the value customers…
What Does “TPS” Stand For?
"One of the students of Taiichi Ohno said,' We at Toyota made a mistake. We should never have called it the Toyota Production System [TPS]. We should have called it…
The Job For Toyota Employees Isn’t ‘Work’
"People don't go to Toyota to work; they go there to think." Taiichi Ohno, quoted in The Lean Farm by Ben Hartman (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015) p. 139. Note from…
Fireworks and a quote from a famous physicist
"Prediction is difficult...especially about the Future!" This quote came to mind as I watched the July 4th fireworks this week. It was supposedly said by Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr…
Continuous Problem-Solving
"What caused the problem that interrupted the process, and who will do what to resolve it?" Creating a Lean Culture, 3rd Edition by David Mann (CRC Press, 2015) p. 112.…
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