Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSSince some of your are familiar, practitioners, or die-hard fans of the Toyota Production System, I thought this history would be a nice reminder of how the company came to be the leader that it is. The data is from 2001 — so […]
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Batch-and-Queue or Single-Piece Flow in Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Making
Batch-and-Queue or Single-Piece Flow in Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Making. Having as large of a family as mine, we need all of our internal processes optimized. You know what I mean? To be able to effectively manage a large family, we run on a pretty strict routine — I didn’t say “schedule” here because […]
Role of Complexity in Business: The Silent Killer
Complexity in Business can be a silent killer. > Yahoo’s Peanut Butter Manifesto reminded me of Systems Thinking. In Systems Thinking, there is a distinction between good complexity and bad complexity. Below are the following rules: End-to-End, systems is an organic ecosystem, with inter-dependent parts. From a business perspective, eliminate complexity that the customer is […]
Kanban, Takt Time, & All-You-Can-Eat Meat
Last year sometime, while I was in Dallas, Fort Worth, for business, a few buddies and I ate at a highly-recommended restaurant called Texas de Brazil. It’s one of those all-you-can-eat meat places, with gourmet-style meats, a great salad bar, and just an excellent atmosphere. While I’m not a huge carnivore, I have to admit […]
Lean Management Folks Says Walk-in Clinic Improves Patient Care
I’d argue that walk-in clinics are great for business, great for patients, and great for the economy. In fact, it’s an application of Lean Healthcare. Let me explain. Wal-Mart and other retailers are opening clinics to capture the walk-in market. Bloomberg reports: To capture walk-in patients who will buy drugs and other merchandise, Wal-Mart Stores […]
Toyota Information Technology
Toyota is all about the customer. We hear a lot — and I’ve written a lot on this blog — about the Toyota Production System, anglicized in the United States as Lean, but we haven’t known much about the role of Information Technology at Toyota (go here for a recent interview on how to apply […]
Powerpoint Tufte Nasa: Devoid of Meaning
Do you remember the Barack Obama “Yes We Can” speech? Yes, it was very powerful. Now imagine if it were a PowerPoint Deck – all the power and emotion is removed. I once received a powerpoint presentation from a colleague; in the business world, powerpoint presentations are often amourously called “powerpoint decks.” Well, this deck […]
5S
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Root Cause Analysis Example
Many years ago, Aristotle provided us with a helpful way of seeing problems and in dealing with them: Since everything that is in motion must be moved by something, let us suppose there is a thing in motion which was moved by something else in motion, and that by something else, and so on. But […]
Scrum at Yahoo!
These days, there’s much written about Lean Software Development, Kanban for Software, and especially Lean Startup Principles for Software. This article revisits a time at Yahoo! about 12 years ago where Scrum was just getting its start at the once leader in search. If you’re interested, we’ve interviewed leaders in the lean startup movement. The […]