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Tag Archives: continual improvement
Kaizen Priorities
Kaizen Priorities by Mike Wroblewski: Priority 1: Kaizen your bottleneck station first – If you don’t know what is your bottleneck station, find it. There are many ways to find your bottleneck: all the inventory is piled in front of … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Quality tools
Tagged continual improvement
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Executives Participating in Kaizen Events
The Masco Mapmakers [the broken link was removed] by Bill Waddell Guys from Brasscraft or Morgantown Plastics might go to a Delta faucet plant for the event – and note that these are executives, not factory level folks – that … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Manufacturing
Tagged continual improvement, leadership, lean manufacturing
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Change is not Improvement
In response to: Why executives order reorgs [the broken link was removed] We trained hard… but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, quote
Tagged change, continual improvement, critical thinking, Psychology, quote, teams
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Management Excellence
My comments on, Take off the Blinders [the broken link was removed]: I think the question of what other companies have management practices worth studying is interesting. The answer could be very helpful as others could learn from what those … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, quote
Tagged continual improvement, Data, Lean thinking, management, respect for people
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Measurement and Data Collection
This is my response to the Deming Electronic Network message (the site is dead, so I removed the link) on measurement. I find it useful to ask what will be done with the results of data collection efforts (in order … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, quote, Statistics
Tagged continual improvement, curiouscat, Data, Deming, evidence based management, quote, Statistics
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New Toyota CEO’s Views
The Man Driving Toyota from Business Week: Toyota has grown in the past few years, but [there’s a risk] that a belief that the current status is satisfactory creeps into the minds of employees. That’s what I’m worried about. We … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process improvement, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged continual improvement, management, Toyota, variation
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