"People often equate “Lean” with the tools that are used to create efficiencies and standardize processes. However, implementing tools represents at most 20 percent of the effort in Lean transformations.…
My last few posts have focused on the role of "thinking" in Lean. I've said that the core of it is "THINKING People." In the Lean Business Culture, we don't…
If you've studied Lean for a while, you may have seen the abbreviation "TPS." It usually means "Toyota Production System." Toyota created the business culture we now call "Lean" in…
"What is so striking about Toyota's Georgetown factory is, in fact, that it only looks like a car factory. It's really a big brain—a kind of laboratory focused on a…
"There is no doubt in our minds that, first, Lean thinking is a way of thinking that is radically different from mainstream management's thinking and, second, that it leads to…