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 …