In my consulting travels, I often find instances where common sense dictates. Unfortunately, it is not common sense until you open up your boundaries and venture a bit up and down the value stream to see what your internal suppliers and customers are doing.
Learn more about ‘looking over the wall’ at other processes to find the waste hiding in plain sight.
I recently got an email from Tim McMahon of “A Lean Journey” asking me a set of questions that he was sending out to a bunch of Lean voices. I had worked with him on Read more…
There’s an old expression about ‘pulling out all the stops’ to get something accomplished. It basically means doing everything within your power to make sure that a task is completed. Where Does This Expression Come Read more…
Generally speaking, people view inspections as a good thing and a sign of good quality. The truth is that inspections are generally a sign of the opposite. Unless mandated by some legal requirement, inspections are Read more…
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