Mike Cardus

JANUARY 19, 2012

The image on the right reflects the ‘ Cascade-of-Planning ’ model or in Lean Manufacturing the Hoshin Kanri used in the Toyota Production System. Management is able to examine the process-system that the work is being done in and determine what is stopping this person from doing their best. WITH OUT Coaching.

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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. Establish mass production systems, achieve low prices, and contribute to the growth of the Japanese economy.

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Deming Lean Manufacturing Management Long-term 28

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. Yet, the outcomes are far too hard to see, especially when one is confident in the direction of action, and when the system is open to both familiar and unfamiliar unknowns.

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Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

Taking care to pay attention to what they want changed both shows an understanding of psychology (“respect for people” in lean terms) and is likely to unearth some fairly easy improvements to start with. This effort also can be an opportunity to improve communication and the understanding of the organization as a system.

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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. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. Less than a year later, a new CEO came in from the outside and disbanded the internal Lean program.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In fact, there’s a part of our brains called the seeking system that creates the natural impulses to learn new skills and take on challenging but meaningful tasks. And, when our seeking systems are activated, we feel more motivated, purposeful, and zestful. But how do you do it? Experimentation.

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Motivation Lean Manufacturing Management System 15

Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

Dan’s presentation includes a nice discussion of the importance of understanding the organization as a system (in his words the value streams). With that understanding you can then seek to improve the overall system. As John Shook summarizes, the power of all of this is actually learning is the work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

and Canada, I have come to the conclusion that health care professionals will continue to struggle to deliver it unless hospitals redesign their internal supply processes, structures, and measurement systems so that staff have the specific materials and equipment needed for patients’ individual care plans, when they are needed.

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System Health Care Operations Construction 8

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. More importantly, because a pull system is asynchronous (i.e., How to create a "pull" system. The result?

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Lean Manufacturing How To System Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Leader standard work is a term often used in lean manufacturing. At CapitalOne, for example, one of the procurement teams uses a board that shows where purchase requests are in the queue, how long they’ve been in the system, who’s working on them, and what problems might be slowing the process down.

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Lean Manufacturing Long-term Project Performance Review 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The CDAO needed to solve two problems that were not envisioned in his original job scope: integrating data governance into the product development process and guiding the development of the IT systems that collect and manage consent information. It found that data quality was one of the top three causes of project delays and cost overruns.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. The newest robots, 3-D printing systems, and data-mining hardware and services were all there along with a host of people hyping Industry 4.0, And that’s often when organizations run into problems.

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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

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

automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. 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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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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. The Danaher Business System drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement.

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Danaher has codified dozens of tools for lean manufacturing (and many other business practices) over the past 20 years, but operating unit executives decide which parts of the toolkit will be most helpful in reaching their agreed-upon 1- and 5-year targets.

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