Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 10, 2013

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. Be sure to set goals that feed into larger goals for the team or organization. Purpose Team Building goals measure metrics SMART'

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Goal Metrics Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain 150

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Lean management practices are supremely focused on company behavior and operation, and it’s just one reason why so many Silicon Valley companies have created cultures that mix fun, family and business into one profitable environment. Other Lessons From Manufacturing.

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Management Lean Manufacturing Human Resources Environment 100

Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Today’s guest is Amir Ghannad, Director, Atlanta Plant and North America Lean Manufacturing/Workplace Excellence at Sunny Delight Beverages Co., who shares the story of how he and his team transformed the performance of the company’s Atlanta Plant. Results and morale were at an all time low.

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Lean Manufacturing Benchmarking Morale Industry 78

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Meanwhile [1983], along with the establishment of the TQC Promotion Department President Shoichiro Toyoda announced a policy for the management team to take the lead in tackling quality control. That management system is often referred to as the Toyota Production System and was also given the name “lean manufacturing.”

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Deming Lean Manufacturing Management Long-term 28

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. At both Make-A-Wish and Novant Health, for example, leaders encouraged employees to create their own job titles , a move which prompted people to highlight their unique contributions to their teams.

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Motivation Lean Manufacturing Management System 15

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. The software makes progress visible to everyone on a team, and facilitates multi-party communication on an as-needed basis.

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Lean Manufacturing How To System Software 12

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. The unit may be lobbying for lean manufacturing techniques or special attention to a global customer. The fifth and most common relationship is the managed team. Team members may dislike each other.

Lean Manufacturing 13

Lean Manufacturing Policies Operations Long-term 13

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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Productivity Products Lean Manufacturing Technology 15

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

CEOs are increasingly adding the CDO role to their management teams to tackle the big business issues that come with data. The consent agreements are created by the relevant business units and reviewed by their legal teams. Using concepts from lean manufacturing, it modeled the time engineers spent creating and transforming data.

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Company Lean Manufacturing Compliance Quality 8

Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

Related: Minimize Total Cost – Leadership While Viewing the Organization as a System – How to Create a Continual Improvement Culture – Building a Great Software Development Team.

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Deming System Quality Cost 28

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. A translator for a bigger, broader team. Capturing the digital opportunity is becoming even more of a team sport. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Operations Lean Manufacturing Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

For instance, I am currently conducting research with a small software company in Austin, KaiNexus , which draws on the continuous improvement and lean manufacturing philosophies to help clients implement upwards of 75% of the ideas they collect within local teams and departments.

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Download Lean Manufacturing Participative Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The issue is less how any given individual "understands" an innovative idea or technique than how the team or group translates it into their own language. Consequently, I'm always looking for easy opportunities to hear, see or experience how my "expertise" gets translated and interpreted for a lager team or group.

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Innovation Workshop Lean Manufacturing Kaizen 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If it were a Toyota vehicle-manufacturing plant, a key enabler would be a rope strung along each production line above team members, the Andon Cord. The cord can be pulled by anyone encountering a quality problem or needing assistance from the team leader.

Health Care 8

Health Care Ishikawa Lean Manufacturing Early Adopters 8

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. The reason few companies implement such simple improvements isn't a lack of good ideas, but because complexity traps and kills good ideas.

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Company Customer Loyalty Guidelines Lean Manufacturing 16