Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Irrespective of the value of the information, how often is it relevant to you at that moment? A lesson from lean manufacturing. One of the critical steps in lean manufacturing (or bringing lean to any other process, for that matter) is shifting to a "pull" system. How to create a "pull" system.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

We have a deep desire to use our unique skills and perspectives to make our own decisions about how to help our teams succeed. For example, employees in a white-goods manufacturing plant in Italy learned about lean manufacturing by playing with Legos rather than cooktops.

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Motivation Lean Manufacturing Management System 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

But just as we need to know whether the evening we are about to spend is with our mother-in-law or a university buddy, managers inside organizations need to know whether the meeting they are about to have with a manufacturing expert is with an internal supplier, a team member, or a lobbyist for lean manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The ways individual companies achieve these straightforward goals fall in two basic categories: developing and adopting new management practices (such as total quality management, lean manufacturing, reengineering, and employee engagement), or adopting new technology and integrating it into the way work is done.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

A large durable goods manufacturer wanted to quantify the value of the IT portfolio to its product development function. Using concepts from lean manufacturing, it modeled the time engineers spent creating and transforming data.

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Company Lean Manufacturing Compliance Quality 9

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

In appreciation of systems, Ackoff offered advice on how to steer past the time-honored traps that prevail in our traditional mechanistic thinking, which can lead us to narrowly judge efforts as either wasteful or non-value-added. And, with what context or system is such a judgment made?

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

This idea of growing the capability of the organization and the capabilities of the people while delivering today is the core of my view on how to lead an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, lean manufacturing was the Big New Idea and it seemed like everyone was learning new tools with Japanese names. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It’s a familiar story.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

We enlisted experts in operational effectiveness and service excellence, and both leaders and front line staff were trained on the principles of lean manufacturing. Initially described by John Krafcik at MIT in the late 1980s, lean principles build upon the quality improvement processes of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

As the lean manufacturing folks will tell you, eliminating rework and redundancies while streamlining the information sharing is central to agile communications. Do you take that extra 60 seconds necessary to think how to make your emails more forwardable? Those are resources that effective executives are reluctant to squander.

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