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Taxes Online: Tax Audit Risk Visual Management

by Pete Abilla on March 14, 2012

taxes online, turbotax, tax audit risk

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Every year about this time in the United States, people scramble to get their taxes done. I’m no exception. But thankfully, with the help of tax professionals and Turbotax, there is plenty of help to decode and understand the convoluted tax laws that we have [...]

when lean deployments or tranformations are misguided

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn There’s a story shared among lean practitioners that illustrates the dogmatic approach to lean manufacturing that, in part, has given lean the perception that it is detached from anything important to the organization. In other words, when a Lean Transformation doesn’t align to [...]

Floor Marking: Muda, Kaizen, or Kanban?

by Pete Abilla on February 21, 2012

floormarking, aisle tape, lean manufacturing, 5S

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn We’re pleased to have Cliff Lowe as a guest blogger today and for him to share his thoughts with us on what many of us take for granted: floor visual management and the importance of that type of communication design for lean manufacturing. [...]

school lunch, childhood obesity, lunchroom, lunch lady

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn We know from the Theory of Constraints that every system has a bottleneck. The goal, then, isn’t to eliminate the bottleneck, but learn how to manage the overall system by effectively managing the constraint in that system. This is true in most cases. [...]

lady liberty, blind justice

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Bypassing any expected change management effort or cultural transformation, nothing gets a group of employees moving than an executive order. That’s exactly what the Governor of the State of Washington did – has executed an executive order for government employees to apply Lean [...]



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