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I sat in a meeting the other day where a local manager was discussing his plans for the next phase of their transformation program. They were going to do 5S and had a list of all the right things to […]
June 23, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Make Problems Obvious, Solving Problems
One of the topics discussed often in consulting, and very often in the sales stage of engagements, is ROI. When will I get my investment back? This is of course important to any business owner and most managers. However, as […]
June 01, 2016 - (0) comments - Learning, PDCA, Solving Problems
The title of this post is often attributed to Deming, although if you look at the bottom of THIS page it is reasonably clear that he did not say this. He did however, in his “out of the crisis”, cite […]
I read a post on LinkedIn last week discussing shareholder value & the Scandinavian way of doing business – it suggested the Scandinavian way of doing business could be an inspiration to create “shared value” as opposed to shareholder value. […]
April 19, 2016 - (0) comments - Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Lean
I’ve been preparing for a talk I’m giving this Friday and struggling to clarify what my “take away” is. Most speakers say that we should be clear about what we want people to get from the talk and in many […]
April 05, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Management, Systems Thinking
It has been written about repeatedly, people talk about it, some go as far as doing something about it. But too often we (the lean community) focus more on how to use the tools than the culture we want to engender when it […]
March 30, 2016 - (0) comments - Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Lean, Management
I read an article yesterday asking whether Lean can help with regards to corporate strategy, not just operational efficiency. I’m not sure which bothers me more; that we are still asking this question or that so many of us seem […]
March 01, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leadership
I recently read “The Gold Mine” by Freddy & Michael Ballé. It is a reasonable attempt to do with Lean what Eli Goldratt had done with “The Goal”, i.e. explain the concept of an improvement methodology by encapsulating it in a […]
February 16, 2016 - (0) comments - Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Management
I read an article the other day about standardised work and one today regarding A3’s. The first one had a phrase that reverberated with me; “a countermeasure in search of a problem, instead of the other way around”. The second emphasises […]
February 09, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Dynamic Organisations, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Solving Problems, Standards
I often write about change and it being necessary for growth; that we need to embrace change, be open to it, look forward to it, etc. However, there is a finite capacity within our organisations & ourselves for the amount […]
February 02, 2016 - (0) comments - Change, Leaders Developing People, Leadership, Learning, Management, Solving Problems
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