Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

Even seasoned senior managers look to continually enhance their skill sets to differentiate themselves from other job seekers. Management job seekers with lean management experience can separate themselves from the competition. Here are five reasons: Companies Invest in Lean Management, Creating Lean-Related Jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

It involves replacing traditional mass manufacturing with “lean manufacturing” principles. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world.

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Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Sarah co-authored Tool Time for Lean with David Langford.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Positive emotions are important in their own right, of course. For example, employees in a white-goods manufacturing plant in Italy learned about lean manufacturing by playing with Legos rather than cooktops. Another account manager spent two days in a hospital to understand what it would really mean to become paperless.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. He commented on the self-described qualities and skills of the senior managers he had guided. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

The company was also trying to integrate the principles of lean manufacturing into its working styles, and Agostini found that changing the gender balance was a key lever in changing behaviors more generally. A modern, competitive company has to be able to manage the simple, predictable reality of parenting.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. 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. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

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