Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

To establish simple and effective management systems without being preoccupied by form, paying particular attention to ensuring checks and actions, and rotating the management cycle rapidly. Practice ‘Good Thinking, Good Products’ at all times to raise the reputation of Toyota as a maker of quality products.

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Deming Lean Manufacturing Management Long-term 28

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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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 10, 2013

Smart goals and data-driven assessment help employees and managers map career advancement – Guest post by Danielle M. Here’s what the acronym means: Specific: When an individual or team needs to tackle a large general goal, such as “Increase productivity,” it often helps to specify the desired action. Danielle M.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 28, 2016

It also grew when manufacturers worldwide began to adopt the Lean Manufacturing practices of Japanese companies, replacing the overspecialized, assembly-line mentality with teams that developed broader knowledge and skills and had greater autonomy. Decentralization gained momentum when Peter Drucker persuaded Alfred P.

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Decentralization Lean Manufacturing Directory Learning-by-Doing 240

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 19, 2012

Every employee is entitled to have a competent manager with the capability to bring value to their problem solving and decision making. The image on the right reflects the ‘ Cascade-of-Planning ’ model or in Lean Manufacturing the Hoshin Kanri used in the Toyota Production System. Click on the image to enlarge.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 16, 2013

Long before we heard the phrase “Quality is Job #1,” various movements initiated the concept of systematically improving product quality. Deming taught Japan’s top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales. manufacturing and Japanese imports. In the 1970s, the U.S.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 91

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Prahalad , the brilliant management guru. LG has focused on Brazil’s BoP based on Prahalad’s 4As framework while managing to navigate Brazil’s complex corporate and political network – an intricate “Keiretsu”. LG has devised payment subscription plans that makes its products affordable. To quote the late, great C.K.

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Long before we heard the phrase “Quality is Job #1,” various movements initiated the concept of systematically improving product quality. Deming taught Japan’s top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing, and sales. manufacturing and Japanese imports. In the 1970s, the U.S.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 78

Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 6, 2012

Despite this, many companies undertaking lean manufacturing do not measure the effectiveness of their efforts on improving the bottom line. You might even want to throw in an extra 10% saving for the productivity gains from not having people stuck in meetings. Step 3 - Turn these figures into a bottom-line ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

For example, employees in a white-goods manufacturing plant in Italy learned about lean manufacturing by playing with Legos rather than cooktops. They then experimented with transforming their own production line using the new techniques. It doesn’t take much to light up our seeking systems.

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Motivation Lean Manufacturing Management System 15

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Increasing productivity — making more with less — is at the core of any company or any economy's economic progress. From a societal view, productivity drives higher living standards and increases shared resources — for example, providing a government with more resources to invest back into its citizens.

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Productivity Products Lean Manufacturing Technology 15

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. I offer these comments as feedback on efforts to apply improvement principles, including the Toyota Production System, to turnaround situations.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products. Brian Joiner also expressed this idea well : Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between “cost cutting” and “eliminating the causes of costs.”.

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Deming System Quality Cost 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We use vague terms like "line" and "dotted-line" or "team" and expect managers to be able to function effectively. If we had a richer, more explicit language for describing relationship, confusion would reduce and productivity increase. The fifth and most common relationship is the managed team. Their actions are interdependent.

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Lean Manufacturing Policies Operations Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

CEOs are increasingly adding the CDO role to their management teams to tackle the big business issues that come with data. The chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) of a consumer product company is struggling to manage end-user consent data. Enter the chief data officer, or CDO. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

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. Everyone was inundated with email , and both the appraisers and management had difficulty tracking their work. The result?

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Lean Manufacturing How To System Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

If so, you probably manage your organization and your direct reports through weekly meetings and email. Leader standard work is a term often used in lean manufacturing. Moreover, employees and managers lose the vital, trust-building connection with leadership that helps sustain culture and habits through tough times.

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Lean Manufacturing Long-term Project Performance Review 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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. It was all reminiscent of 19 th century advertisements for cure-all patent medicines. There is a common misconception that technology alone can produce magical results. Sponsored by Accenture.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2012

Years ago, Jon Katzenbach told me that the greatest challenge that change agents face is changing their ideas about change. The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen (??)

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Kaizen Industry Training Lean Manufacturing 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects. What are their secrets?

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

As a manufacturing company grows, it benefits from economies of scale and can focus teams of people on extracting the maximum productivity from its plant operations. Their growth typically results in more complexity — not productivity benefits — and complexity inevitably kills growth.

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