What Kind of BRAIN do I Need?
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…
TPS: “THINKING Production System”
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…
Is it a Factory? …or a BRAIN?
"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…
Lean Thinking…Superior Performance
"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…