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"Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen"
Remember the song “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”? I was thinking how appropriate some of the lyrics are for people who see problems in their work area everyday that never get … more →
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Regional Lean Leader in Suzhou, China
yvonneschuster wrote 1 month ago: Regional Lean Leader in Suzhou, China for a diversified operating company headquartered in the Unite … more →
Broadening the Concept of Waste
strategicppm wrote 1 month ago: What do you think of waste within your organization? Things you don’t use? How about ideas you … more →
Toyota Production System
Bob Hubbard wrote 1 month ago: The “Thinking” Production System: TPS as a winning strategy for developing people in the … more →
Q 261: Why is James Womack important?
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Bob Morris wrote 2 months ago: Womack is the founder and chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit education, publishi … more →
Corporate Breakthrough (Lean or the Toyota Production System) Deployment Officer In New York City, NY for a hospital and health care system
yvonneschuster wrote 2 months ago: The Corporate Breakthrough (otherwise known as Lean, or the Toyota Production System) Deployment Off … more →
"Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen"
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Brian Buck wrote 2 months ago: Remember the song “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”? I was thinking how approp … more →
How a traditional Japanese meal can accelerate new product introduction?
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jmok007 wrote 2 months ago: What should be the “correct” eating sequence? For those of you who frequent Sushi restaurants, have … more →
Toyota's IT Investment in Global Kaizen
jmok007 wrote 2 months ago: Little has been published about Toyota’s IT investment. This may be one of the reasons why many cons … more →
The Samurai Sword for Lean Transformation
jmok007 wrote 3 months ago: The missing opportunity of western manufacturers In this economy, it is hard to imagine that many ma … more →
Efficient Inventory Control and Management
Sridhar Karnam wrote 3 months ago: Introduction Efficient inventory management is achieved through inventory control and inventory mana … more →
Lean Primer Article
bobpetruska wrote 3 months ago: Hello lean thinkers. I found this outstanding resource on the web and contacted the authors to get … more →
Lean Manufacturing Translation, Kaizen Interpretation by LangJobs.com
documenttranslations wrote 3 months ago: Kaizen – Continuous improvement Kaizen means continuous improvement. It can be in personal lif … more →
Lean Thinking at Starbucks
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Frances Frei wrote 3 months ago: The WSJ wrote an article about the recent adoption of “lean thinking” at Starbucks. Lea … more →
Was Henry Ford a true Lean thinker?
cebrianpablo wrote 4 months ago: Do not forget that Today and Tomorrow was written in the 1920s, over a half century ago when Ford’s … more →
Q #232: What is an “elegant solution”?
Bob Morris wrote 4 months ago: Matthew May I first encountered the term when reading Matthew May’s The Elegant Solution: Toyota … more →
Maasaki Imai reviews Kaizen and Just in Time 23 years later. It is time to meet the challenge for surviving
cebrianpablo wrote 4 months ago: The 73-year-old mind of Masaaki Imai runs razor sharp belying the frailty of his small frame. He tal … more →
Book Review: The Birth Of Lean
Brian Buck wrote 5 months ago: “The Birth Of Lean” published by the Lean Enterprise Institute is a terrific book. This book is fo … more →
Kanban or Scrum? - First Generation Agile Methods
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Boris Gloger wrote 6 months ago: I found again some very interesting wrong interpretations about how Scrum works. Kenji Hiranabe and … more →
Q #100: What is “lean thinking”?
Bob Morris wrote 6 months ago: In this series, Bob Morris poses a key question and then responds to it with material from one or mo … more →
