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Category Archives: Lean thinking
Management Improvement System Flavors
ASQ has asked their Influential Voices to explore the question “Is Agile the new Lean?” I have participated with the program since 2012: see my past blog posts as part of the ASQ Influential Voices program. No Agile is not … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management
Tagged agile management, ASQ Influential Voices, Lean thinking, management system
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Applying Toyota Kata to Agile Retrospectives
HÃ¥kan Forss, King (interactive entertainment games), presentation at the GOTO Copenhagen 2015 conference. I strongly recommend Mike Rother’s book: Toyota Kata. Description from Workshop description “The Toyota Kata Experience” Kata means pattern, routine, habits or way of doing things. Kata … Continue reading
Change Management: Create a Culture Seeking Continual Improvement or Use Band-Aids?
Successfully shepherding change within an organization is often a challenge. Often change management strategies are mainly about how to cope with a toxic culture but exclude the option of fixing the toxic culture. Why not address the root causes instead … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Psychology, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged change, culture, curiouscat, leadership, managing people, organization as a system, Psychology, respect for people, root cause, trust
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Magnetic White-Board Kanban Card Options
Just some quick ideas for Kanban whiteboard magnetic card options from a question I answered on Reddit. Here is the best lean solution: Trying Out My Agile Kanban Board from Jon Miller. Why, well mainly I am kidding about it … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Quality tools
Tagged agile management, kanban, lean manufacturing, productivity, project management, Quality tools, tips, usability, visual management
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Toyota Understands Robots are Best Used to Enhance the Value Employees Provide
Toyota has always seen robotics as a way to enhance what staff can do. Many USA executives think of robotics as a way to reduce personnel. Toyota wants to use the brainpower of employees to continually improve the organization. Toyota … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged continual improvement, engineering, Innovation, Japan, lean manufacturing, managing people, Manufacturing, overpaid executives, respect for people, technology, Toyota, Toyota Production System (TPS)
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Managers Are Not Non-Leaders: Managers Need to Practice Things We Classify as Leadership Traits
Saying “Managers care about efficiency and leaders care about effectiveness” is like saying “Doctors care about theory and nurses care about patients.” Managers that don’t care about effectiveness are lousy managers. Leaders that don’t care about the gemba are lousy … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Popular, quote
Tagged commentary, curiouscat, leadership, Lean thinking, Management, Popular, Systems thinking
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You are a Fool if You Do What I Say
Guest post from Mark Graban There’s an interesting quote from Taiichi Ohno in “Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management,” which I was re-reading today… “You are a fool if you do what I say. You are a greater fool if you don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Lean thinking, Quality tools
Tagged continual improvement, guest post, lean manufacturing, quote, Taiichi Ohno
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Getting Known Good Ideas Adopted
This month Paul Borawski asked ASQ’s Influential Voices to explore two questions; first, what is the most important challenge the quality community faces in ensuring that the value of quality is fully realized for the benefit of society? I really … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Process improvement
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Lean thinking, management history, quality, Six sigma
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Leadership and Management
I don’t think the attempts to separate leadership and management are useful. I read plenty of things that are variations on Peter Drucker’s: “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” A manager that is not concerned … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged commentary, curiouscat, John Hunter, leadership, lean manufacturing, management, quote, system thinking
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Revolutionary Management Improvement May Be Needed But Most Management Change is Evolutionary
This month the ASQ Influential Bloggers were asked to respond to the question – will the future of quality be evolutionary or revolutionary? I think it has been and will continue to be both. Revolutionary change is powerful but very … Continue reading →