Chronic Inventory Syndrome – A Self-Determined Limit to Lean
Almost Lean but Without the Real and Profound Benefits When the counter-intuitive reveals itself it generates a feeling like no other. As many say it seems like a veil is ...
Suddenly “Learning to See” – Lean’s Counter-intuitive Truths
Thinking vs. Efficiency 2 A story of a beach ball, a “eureka” moment and lean success. Lean’s Uncomfortable Reality There is an uncomfortable reality when it comes to lean thinking ...
Thinking Differently vs. Efficiency Gains
Thinking vs. Efficiency 1 A confession. Despite Deming and others’ building some of the foundational thinking for lean, as a recovering “toolhead” engineer with a technical slant, I was a ...
The Kaizen-Enabled Organisation - The Nimble, Agile Chief Engineer
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Survival, Kaizen and Speed 3 A Stark Contrast in Approach: An Anecdote Picture the time, the middle to late 1990’s. The ...
Real Kaizen - "Survival of the.....Cleverest"?
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Survival, Kaizen and Speed 2 Plenty of Darwin and natural selection platitudes around at present but, in fact, it was in ...
Ohno’s Lasting Legacy - A Survival (kaizen) Work Culture
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Survival, Kaizen and Speed In the forgotten years between 1945 and 1965 Toyota and other Japanese motor manufacturers were fighting to ...
Mind the “Gemba” Gap: Patchy Knowledge of “Work-as-Done” Could become a Significant Safety Risk
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Safety, Spatial Awareness and Human Work 3 An Unbelievable Accelerant The pandemic has been an unbelievable accelerant and has forced us ...
To Err is Human: Poka-Yoke Thinking and Transmission
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Safety, Spatial Awareness and Human Work 2 People, Behaviour and Poka-Yoke Thinking A crowded beach and the desire for social distancing ...
A Real Test for “Safety First” as our Systems are Stretched to the Limit
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 2: Safety, Spatial Awareness and Human Work 1 A Real Test for “Safety First” as our Systems are Stretched to the Limit As the ...
Sun Tzu, Maps and "Two Types of Why"
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial ResetStep 1: Sense Making and Situational Awareness 3 In Praise of Ordnance Survey (OS) Maps Like many others being in lockdown has meant an ...
Move Quickly – “Speed Trumps Perfection” – Dr Michael J Ryan
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial ResetStep 1: Sense Making and Situational Awareness 2 A short, sharp and powerful piece of advice from Dr Michael J Ryan who is an ...
At the “Peak of Mount Stupid” you can be at your Most Dangerous
Phase 1: Rapid Response and Initial Reset Step 1: Sense Making and Situational Awareness 1 Self-Awareness and Staying on Safe Ground. I want to start out by stating something obvious. ...
Events and Common Sense
An Introduction to Recovery or Reset Roadmap “Events, dear boy, events”. The more recent versions of the famous Oxford Dictionary of Quotations have a section on mis-quotations and it gives ...
Busting Paradigms with Principles 1
Busting Paradigms with Principles – Part One “Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge ...
Beer and Forrester
Beer and Forrester – A tale of humans vs. data The idea of a “beer game” is always tempting. Jay Forrester’s Beer Game, developed in the late 1950’s, was, until ...