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 …
The lean leadership dilema
The Daily Lean Leadership Dilema – The Reality of Competing Commitments Lean leadership behaviours and principles are discussed much more readily these days as the predictable correction away from a …
The Unlearning Curve
The “learning curve” is only truly exploited by first “unlearning”…… It seems that almost every organisation aspiring to be lean or agile has a “system” that is visualised as a …
If you change the way you look at things
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Max Planck This is a quote from the founder of Quantum Physics, German physicist Max …
Roads Demand and the Law of Unintened Consequences
Roads, Demand and the Law of Unintended Consequences Thoughts from a (very busy) Manchester or Moscow Ring Road On google maps the distance from my home to Oldham is just …
DCAF Muda Monster
Lean Thinking and the Muda Monster – Beware the missed principle. You can’t move these days for a monster or a mythical creature. Is it the only way we will …
Notes from a small lean island
Team Integra Blog – Notes from a small lean island 16 or so years ago I read Bill Bryson’s iconic book recounting his journey around the quirky nuances of his …