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Lean and Meaningful: Creating Leaner Value Streams: Are the pacemaker and the bottleneck the same?
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. Creating Leaner Value Streams: Are the pacemaker and the bottleneck the same? When designing leaner value streams, one key step is to define where to locate the pacemaker. However, a common misconception is to believe that the bottleneck process is the pacemaker. While a pacemaker could coincide with the bottleneck process, they mean different things. What is the bottleneck? What is the pacemaker? Answer this quest...
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Lean and Meaningful: December 2014
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. What can Americans and Scottish whiskey distilleries learn from the car industry? These days Americans and Scottish whiskey distilleries might feel uncomfortable on the news that the title of the finest whiskey in the world has been given to their Japanese competitor. The telegraph Nov 4, 2014. Washington Post Nov 5, 2014. More than just great quality water. While the lack of tradition and the availability of great...
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Lean and Meaningful: Lean transformation is more than Operation Effectiveness
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. Lean transformation is more than Operation Effectiveness. If you believe that Lean is about operation effectiveness, you most likely would fail on creating a sustainable superior performance. Perhaps the world’s most known business-school professor, in his “ What is Strategy? Porter defined Operation Effectiveness. 8220; performing similar activities better than rivals perform them. Mistake-proofing solutions confu...
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Kaizen Lean Books | Kaizen Institute Consulting Group Books
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Kaizen Institute and its Global Group of Companies service clients throughout the world and in some countries where we do not have a legal entity or office yet established, we use carefully selected KI offices within the region, allowing us to leverage local language and culture, combined with our global knowledge and capabilities, adding more value for our clients. Vision, Mission and Values. Global Lean Transformation Consultants. Organising For Improvement (Support Kaizen). Vision, Mission and Values.
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Publications - Gemba Panta Rei
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Lean disambiguation, good management, better change. Jon Miller is the main writer for this blog. He is co-founder and Partner of Gemba Academy LLC, and serves as Advisor to Kaizen Institute. He was born and lived in Japan for 18 years. In 1993 Jon was fortunate to start his career working in lean, kaizen and continuous improvement. He traveled learned while visiting many gembas with engineers who were students of Taiichi Ohno. THE DARK SIDE OF LEAN. TIPS FOR LEAN MANAGERS. Creating a Kaizen Culture.
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Kaizen Lean Books | Kaizen Institute Consutling Group Books
https://us.kaizen.com/publications/books.html
Kaizen Institute and its Global Group of Companies service clients throughout the world and in some countries where we do not have a legal entity or office yet established, we use carefully selected KI offices within the region, allowing us to leverage local language and culture, combined with our global knowledge and capabilities, adding more value for our clients. Vision, Mission and Values. Global Lean Transformation Consultants. Organising For Improvement (Support Kaizen). Vision, Mission and Values.
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Lean and Meaningful: April 2014
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. How to avoid Lean and Six Sigma deployment mistakes. What causes this large failure rate? What can we learn to increase our own odds of success implementing Lean or Six Sigma? What is the Lean and Six Sigma implementation failure rate? Data shows that the majority of Lean and Six Sigma deployment, around 80 percent, efforts fail. A Bain and Company's survey in 2008 found that 80 percent of 184 companies responding ...
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Lean and Meaningful: Organizing a Lean office workplace
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. Organizing a Lean office workplace. Where do you want me to go now? When helping teams to improve their office or transactional operations (i.e. Stanley Black and Decker. I have been asked ' How should an office be organized to make value flow towards our customers with the minimum cost, time and errors? In the US and HOKS. In Japan that I had the opportunity to visit thanks to the Kaizen Institute. The explanation...
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Lean and Meaningful: Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM) Tour
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM) Tour. Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM). A zero-landfill facility in Columbus, IN. Toyota Production System: highest standards of quality and efficiency. Just-in-time" production system: aims to smooth the work flow, reduce inventories and lower production costs. December 17, 2013 at 8:01 AM. April 4, 2014 at 3:57 AM. April 7, 2014 at 9:25 AM. Really t...
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