Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 10, 2013

She is a firm believer of Lean Manufacturing principles and lives for standardized processes. Progress toward a new goal may seem slow, but removing personal preference and other subjective measures from assessments levels the playing field and ensures that the most deserving employees are rewarded. Danielle M.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

LG & Sevamob have both managed to achieve that via a combination of novel business models and in LG’s case low cost & lean manufacturing. Prahalad which represents the model of applying the 4As along with target costing to fit economic affordability of BoP. To quote the late, great C.K.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 22, 2015

” I’ve also been to Kjell’s shop on several occasions, and have seen the values in action, along with a really cool example of how lean manufacturing works. Yes, Kjell isn’t searching for unicorns.

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Lean Manufacturing Entrepreneur Workshop Learning-by-Doing 150

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 16, 2013

Some of the more prominent approaches include Total Quality Management, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program, Six Sigma, ISO-9000, and Lean Manufacturing. Over the past several decades, a variety of programs, initiatives, and standards have evolved specific to quality improvement, performance, and business excellence.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 91

Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Today’s guest is Amir Ghannad, Director, Atlanta Plant and North America Lean Manufacturing/Workplace Excellence at Sunny Delight Beverages Co., who shares the story of how he and his team transformed the performance of the company’s Atlanta Plant.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Some of the more prominent approaches include Total Quality Management, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program, Six Sigma, ISO-9000, and Lean Manufacturing. Over the past several decades, a variety of programs, initiatives, and standards have evolved specific to quality improvement, performance, and business excellence.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 78

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 8, 2023

This fail fast idea also has roots in lean manufacturing and agile software development – but it’s become a guiding principle for all kinds of teams and organisations seeking to foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and adaptability.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Lean management practices are supremely focused on company behavior and operation, and it’s just one reason why so many Silicon Valley companies have created cultures that mix fun, family and business into one profitable environment. Other Lessons From Manufacturing.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 6, 2012

Despite this, many companies undertaking lean manufacturing do not measure the effectiveness of their efforts on improving the bottom line. As with any major change program, measuring the Return on Investment of your process improvement efforts is key for convincing internal stakeholders that what you are doing is worthwhile.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Manufacturing cloud – this can help you to create transparency through each process. Kanban is another great tool that manufacturing companies can use to streamline their business processes. It is a Japanese scheduling system for lean manufacturing.

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Tools Process Lean Manufacturing Industry 91

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2023

You can reduce waste by implementing lean manufacturing principles, investing in automation, considering just-in-time inventory, conducting waste audits, and promoting sustainable improvements. This will lead to faster turnaround times and higher performance.

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Operations Cost Lean Manufacturing Outsourcing 97

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 9, 2019

That these global supply chains manage to underpin lean manufacturing systems where seconds count is one of the more amazing feats of modern life. The process of leaving the European Union has perhaps shed fresh light on the inherent complexities of supply chains that increasingly span the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

It involves replacing traditional mass manufacturing with “lean manufacturing” principles. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

So, whether your goal is to reduce the number of useless activities or would like to address overburdened team members, lean project management will help you reduce wasted efforts and become more productive. Check out the following resources: Benefits And Challenges Of Lean Manufacturing. It’s a win-win! Want to learn more?

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

That management system is often referred to as the Toyota Production System and was also given the name “lean manufacturing.” ” Over time the lean manufacturing name has morphed as it is used by many people but at the core it is the Toyota Production System.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2012

Years ago, Jon Katzenbach told me that the greatest challenge that change agents face is changing their ideas about change. The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen (??)

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

A lesson from lean manufacturing. One of the critical steps in lean manufacturing (or bringing lean to any other process, for that matter) is shifting to a "pull" system. Think of all of the emails and documents you have going back and forth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

But just as we need to know whether the evening we are about to spend is with our mother-in-law or a university buddy, managers inside organizations need to know whether the meeting they are about to have with a manufacturing expert is with an internal supplier, a team member, or a lobbyist for lean manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The ways individual companies achieve these straightforward goals fall in two basic categories: developing and adopting new management practices (such as total quality management, lean manufacturing, reengineering, and employee engagement), or adopting new technology and integrating it into the way work is done.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Danaher has codified dozens of tools for lean manufacturing (and many other business practices) over the past 20 years, but operating unit executives decide which parts of the toolkit will be most helpful in reaching their agreed-upon 1- and 5-year targets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

As the lean manufacturing folks will tell you, eliminating rework and redundancies while streamlining the information sharing is central to agile communications. I've seen organizations committed to making forwardability a core competence save literally scores of hours of top-management time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

For example, employees in a white-goods manufacturing plant in Italy learned about lean manufacturing by playing with Legos rather than cooktops. In two weeks, the production team made lean manufacturing their own, reducing internal defects by 30% and improving productivity by 25%.

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Motivation Lean Manufacturing Management Learning-by-Doing 15

Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Sarah co-authored Tool Time for Lean with David Langford. Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Leader standard work is a term often used in lean manufacturing. If so, you probably manage your organization and your direct reports through weekly meetings and email. You should instead consider “ leader standard work.”. However, it needn’t be confined to the factory floor — it’s equally valuable anywhere in the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The best lean manufacturing , agile programming , and kaizen workshops I've attended almost always reflect this translational sensibility: the trainers/facilitators move as efficaciously as possible to get their charges to collaborate with and educate each other. Is the translation a conceptual/technical straitjacket?

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Innovation Workshop Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

Danaher, the $10 billion conglomerate of 600 manufacturing companies, got serious about process improvement after the surprising turnaround of a subsidiary in the mid-1990s. Its Jacobs Vehicle Systems unit used lean manufacturing techniques to eliminate waste, reduce floor space, and improve product flow.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Toyota made its quality reputation sending its lean manufacturing experts into its suppliers' production lines to advise them on product design and process improvement. World-class best customers like Toyota, Tesco and Wal-Mart are famous for actually pushing their suppliers to be more innovative.

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CTO Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation 15

Curious Cat

JUNE 1, 2016

I created a ranking of top management improvement blogs for fun. There is no way to objectively rate blogs by how worthy or valuable they are. I just wanted to create a listing that ranked blogs I thought were worth reading using a collection of metrics that I think have some merit (even if that merit is fairly limited).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. He also had a profound way with words.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

A large durable goods manufacturer wanted to quantify the value of the IT portfolio to its product development function. Using concepts from lean manufacturing, it modeled the time engineers spent creating and transforming data.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

In this presentation Dan Jones discusses what we (with an understanding of Deming’s ideas) can see as an aspect of the Deming chain reaction : Focusing on quality and then time the consequence is that we lower costs. Rather than focusing initially on costs as most people do and then somehow hoping that quality and time will be impacted.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

The company was also trying to integrate the principles of lean manufacturing into its working styles, and Agostini found that changing the gender balance was a key lever in changing behaviors more generally. We also put more discipline into meetings. Strong experienced men can affect smart young women's contribution.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

We enlisted experts in operational effectiveness and service excellence, and both leaders and front line staff were trained on the principles of lean manufacturing. Initially described by John Krafcik at MIT in the late 1980s, lean principles build upon the quality improvement processes of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

For instance, I am currently conducting research with a small software company in Austin, KaiNexus , which draws on the continuous improvement and lean manufacturing philosophies to help clients implement upwards of 75% of the ideas they collect within local teams and departments.

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Download Lean Manufacturing Participative Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, lean manufacturing was the Big New Idea and it seemed like everyone was learning new tools with Japanese names. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It’s a familiar story.

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Operations Lean Manufacturing Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Principles from lean manufacturing can increase the effectiveness of individual work routines as well as coordination of work across departmental boundaries. At one hospital, the electrical outlets for plugging in the computer-on-wheels were above the sinks, which resulted in computers blocking sinks used for hand washing.

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