In our world of Lean Process Improvement all too often we talk about 7 Wastes and expect you to understand what we mean. Your days are filled with value adding, high quality work and DAILY FRUSTRATIONS. Frustrations that reduce your efficiency, hamper your productivity and those of your team and colleagues. Frustrations that cause you and […]
Value Stream Mapping and Alignment”The feedback was positive from every department. Everyone agreed with the improvements that the project found, agreed that we should do something about them, get started quickly; we moved on to the next item on the agenda.” Towards the end of 2014 we completed a Value Stream Mapping project for a […]
EVERY employee has two jobs??…Toyota, the company who have been progressing improvement since the days they made textile looms, take a very progressive and long-term view on kaizen (change good) and employee engagement.(I don’t think they called it Lean, the word doesn’t exist in the index of the Toyota Production System book by Taiichi Ohno, published […]
