Does Lean Align with a Christian Worldview?
Does Lean line up with the Bible's teaching? Is it consistent with the Christian Faith? These were my questions when I first learned of Lean in 2007. I was cautious…
The Power of a Great Team
"Your team is far more important to achieving excellence than any new technology and likely more important than brilliant product ideas. We agree with Ed Catmull, computer scientist and president…
The Power of Visual Management Tools
"The Toyota Way recognizes that visual management complements humans because we are visually, tactilely, and audibly oriented. And the best visual indicators are right at the worksite, where they can…
Challenging and Fulfilling Work for Employees
"Lean production is a superior way for humans to make things. It provides better products in wider variety at lower cost. Equally, important, it provides more challenging and fulfilling work…
A Manager’s Most Important Responsibility
"At Toyota, OJD [On the Job Development] is arguably the most important responsibility of all managers and Toyota has developed a systematic approach. Toyota uses the term 'development' because it…
The Core of Toyota Culture
"One can even say that the core of Toyota culture is a practical approach to scientific thinking. If, in fact, improvement based on scientific thinking is what brings TPS to…
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Productivity drives competitive differentiation
"So it dawned on me that the key driver of internal cost is productivity and that productivity determined over 90 percent of our internal costs (our controllable costs; the costs…
Batching in the Restaurant Business
"We know from long experience that making elements of the finished product, such as steamed milk, in batches might seem efficient, but it creates a lot of waste. Especially when…