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Lean Buzz – FOTM?

2 June 2010 0 comments

The increasing buzz around Lean makes me worry that it is headed for FOTM status (that is flavor of the month or maybe year)?  It looks eerily like the situation around Six Sigma about 5 years ago.  The increasing buzz about Lean seems to lack much understanding of how it might be used specifically in [...]

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Lean Definition – Version 1.0

12 March 2010 1 comment

The term Lean is used inconsistently and even the basic definition seems to have become pretty confused (the wiki definition is here).  Some people view it as synonymous with kaizen events.  Others with value stream mapping and waste elimination.  Many long time practitioners of Lean cannot fathom the use of it outside the factory, but [...]

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Visual Workplace Definition – How You See Performance in the Plant and in the Office

23 February 2010 2 comments

I wrote previously about the lack of any decent definitions of visual workplace (and visual management) on the web.  In fact, what I found was dreadful.  The original post is here.  Amazingly, Wikipedia seems to have deleted the really terrible definition of visual management that I found before.  Now I only find the Lean Manufacturing [...]

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Visual Workplace Definition – Have Not Found Any Good Ones

1 February 2010 1 comment

My Japanese colleagues probably reference visual management as often as any other concept and it is easy to see why.  Visual management has broad applicability across a company from the CEO down to the individual contributor, and from manufacturing to finance, to IT.  You might wonder why I have called this a concept.  This is [...]

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