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Boeing Gets a Grip
Saluting NUMMI
Agile Kanban Journal Day 8: Do We Need a "Done" Column?
Seeking: Checklist for a Sense of Urgency
The Funny Thing About Waste
Agile Kanban Journal: Kaizens on Day 1
Trying Out My Agile Kanban Board
The Amazing Adventures of Kanban
There is No Such Thing as Wasteful Work
Free Gemba Academy Video: The 7 Deadly Wastes
Review of Follow the Learner by Dr. Sami Bahri, DDS
How to Engage People in Kaizen
An End of an Era for the Lean Community?
What is the Role of a Kaizen Promotion Officer?
9 Ways to Struggle at Hoshin Kanri
Ambiguous Visual Controls: This is Elite Access
Tsurube System: How to Flow through Shared or Batch Equipment
5S Red Tag Event for this Website
8 Ways to Get Total Involvement
One-point Lesson: One-point Lesson
A GPS for the TPS
Are Holidays Batch Processing?
The Lean System is Making the Most of What You've Got
Taiichi Ohno Quote of the Day: My First Move
Leader Standard Work and Material Control
The Drop, the Bucket and Continuous Improvement
The A3 Thinking Blog
Visual Management Resource for Lean Hospitals
Ask Gemba: Nuts and Bolts of the Andon System
Go See the Visual Management Blog
All Aboard the Kaizen Express!
12 Leader Standard Work Questions to Ask on the Gemba
Plan Do Czech Act
President Obama Wants a Lean and Mean US Auto Industry
Corporate Models of the Future (with bonus Ohno Circle exercise!)
Happiness the Kaizen Way
How Do Lean Processes Prevent Human Error?
Kaizen Exercise: Stand in the Circle
Ask Gemba: Do We Need the 4th and 5th S?
10 Things the Amish Can Teach Toyota Leadership
Accountability for Continuous Improvement
Gemba Academy Preview: Calculating Takt Time
An Electrically Delicious Lesson on Kaizen
Should Cross-trained Workers be Paid More?
5S Overview Video
Kaizen and the Art of Elephant Eating
"Lean Factories Find It Hard to Cut Jobs"
Ambiguous Visual Controls: When Words Aren't Necessary
Lighting a Candle for Energy Sustainability
What's All the Fuss About A3 Thinking?
Porque é que esta água fria?
Guest Post: Should You Display Standardised Work Sheets at the Workstation?
Free Video: The 10 Commandments of Continuous Improvement
Taiichi Ohno's Three Lessons for the New Toyota President
The US Air Force Discovers TBP: How's it Working Out?
Drive and Dedication Power the TBP Process
TBP: Toyota Business Practice
Edwards Deming, Supply Chain Visionary?
A Question About Kaizen
Guest Post: Daily Lean Marketing Speech
Free Introduction to Lean Manufacturing Video
10 Ways that Kaizen Develops Better Leaders
7 Ways to Reduce Energy Cost
The Lean Workplace as Classroom
Where Did Value Stream Mapping Come From?
Celebrating Over 500 Years of Lean Thinking
The Top 10 Titans of TPS
Don't Touch the Fish. Because...
Kaizen Skills of an Operations Leader
3 More Practical Ways to Show Respect for Humanity
How to Arrive at the Vital Few
The Correct Sequence for Doing 5S?
10 Ways the USPS Can Become a True Economic Engine
Finding Time Values for Standard Work
How to Stretch 90 Second of Work to 2,700 Seconds
5 Why? vs. Why Not?
Lesson for Toyota from the Classics: the Cost of Victory
Ask Gemba: World Class Direct to Indirect Labor Ratio?
Digital Factory Visualization System from Panasonic: Mixed Feelings
What Did You Improve Today? If Not, Why?
The Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 2 Pt.1
Further Reflections on Standard Work
5 Ways Google Can Avoid Eliminating 100 Jobs
Conveyance is the Shadow of Information
SNED - Single Night Exchange of Domiciles?
Live Like Einstein, Operate Like Toyota
The Essential Lean Blogosphere of 2008
The Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 1
Hospital Improves Patient Flow: 90% Seen in Under 60 Minutes
Planning for One Piece Flow Cells
Virtual Factory Tours on YouTube
Ask Gemba
5 Ways to Boost Kaizen Consciousness in 2009
HP Printer Pokayoke Example
Yaruki: The Will to Win Even in Tough Times
9 Surprises for U.S. Manufacturing in 2009
Let's Do Kaizen, Not Kaizan
Answers to Lean Thinking Crossword Puzzle #1
Lean Thinking Crossword Puzzle #1
Field Report from Gemba Tour #62, Part 4
Field Report from Gemba Tour #62, Part 3
Field Report from Gemba Tour #62, Part 2
Field Report from Gemba Tour #62, Part 1
If Blame Helped Solve Problems...
$34,000,000,000
PDCA is About Not Telling Lies
With Competitors Like These, Who Needs a Winning Business Strategy?
It's a Lousy Time to Implement Lean
The Big 3 Must Follow in Toyota's Footsteps to Survive
Ambiguous Visual Controls: This Way is Up
Pyramid Inspire our Lean Transformations
Goat Karma: Today's Most Unexpected Thing
The Future of Kaizen at Toyota is Epic
Workforce Training is Not a Quality Management System
7 Leadership Lessons from a Mountain Goat
Act Small, Think Big
Office 5S Video: Too Much or Too Little?
The Spooky Resemblance of GM, Ford and Chrysler to Zombies
What Tool of Lean Manufacturing Do You Use First?
System Toyota Of Production: TPS or STOP?
Is Mean Lean Better than No Lean?
Asking for Change
13 Lean Leadership Lessons from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Winners of Lean Hospital Books
Part 3 of Q&A with Mark Graban, Author of Lean Hospitals
Part 2 of Q&A with Mark Graban, Author of Lean Hospitals
Defragmentation, Lean Systems and Putting Back Things Where They Belong
Part 1 of Q&A with Mark Graban, Author of Lean Hospitals
Q&A with Mark Graban, Author of Lean Hospitals
Jeffrety Gitomer Tears a Few Pages from Toyota's Playbook
Use Only Reliable, Thoroughly Tested Means
Get Out of Here with that Stop Watch!
The "3 Mu" of Lean Design
Taking Changeover Time into Account for Takt Time Calculation
Actual Takt Time is Planned Takt Time, Actually
The Seven Grand Challenges for Supply and Spend Management in the Next 25 Years
The PIT Factor in Change Management
Do You Want to Go Far or Go Fast on Your Lean Journey?
5 Things I am Still Learning about Lean Manufacturing
How to Measure Knowledge Worker Productivity, Part 3
Lean Manufacturing in One Word
The 7 Creativity Tools for When You are Stuck
Questions Raised by Voluntary Kaizen Policy at Toyota
How to Measure Knowledge Worker Productivity, Part 1
Small Teams Enable Kaizen and TPS
Reading Henry Ford's My Life and Work
5 Seemingly Innocent Questions You Never Want to Hear in a Lean Deployment
Toyota's Mom & Pop Suppliers Feel CCC21 Squeeze
The Wedge is the Simplest of Tools
The Hard Sell for Cells
Oh Noes! Boeing Haz Supply Chain Woes?
Learning from Things that Didn't Work
Toyota's Top Engineer on How to Develop Thinking People
The 5W1H of 5 Why
Ambiguous Visual Controls: Stop on Green
The Lean Journey and the Long Path
Three Ways to Draw Future State Value Stream Maps
We Do Not Make What We Do Not Sell: No More Trucks in Indiana
Kaizen Song: Mr. Pareto
Is it Kaizen or Just Good Management?
The Leisure to do Kaizen
Kaizen: Do What You Can Do Today
Ambiguous Visual Controls: No Running in the Airplane
Jedi Kaizen: Is the Force with You?
Genjitsu: The Only Reality
Continuous Improvement vs. Continual Improvement
Ambiguous Visual Controls: It Is OK to Rest Against Window
Why I Love $7.41 per Gallon Gasoline
Definitely Not the Pull System: Anderson Cooper 360
Toyota's Secret to Kaizen Success: Unpaid OT?
What You Find on the Floor Tells You a Lot
Overheard in Amsterdam: I Just Want the #$%@ to Clean Things Up
True Work, Apparent Work and Busywork
Calisthenics, Kaizen and Your Daily Stretch
Where does the time go?
Endless Meetings Speed Up the Pace of Change on the Gemba
Lean Strategies for Workforce Development in Manufacturing
Boeing Volunteers Helping Non-profits with Lean
You Can't Steal What is Shared Freely
Built in Quality Means Having Your Cake But Not Eating It
Guest Post: Takt Time Competition
Henry Ford Learned from Sears & Roebuck?
A Lean Enterprise Transformation is Like a Marathon
How Many Times Do You Pull the Andon Cord Each Day?
Another Way of Learning to See
The Secret of TPS
Kaizen and the Way of the Ninja
Kaizen Photos! Now Help Me Write this Blog Entry
A Few More Kaizen Ideas Involving Tennis Balls
101 Kaizen Templates: Workplace 5S Audit Sheet
101 Kaizen Templates: PWINT Kaizen Worksheet
Improving Healthcare Delivery by Studying Toyota
The Week in Lean Blogging: Wk. 11, 2008
101 Kaizen Templates: Production Control Board
Fixed Position Stop System
Visual Management that Doesn't Really Satisfy
101 Kaizen Templates: Kaizen Newspaper
Considerations on Maintaining the Fairness of Kaizen Ideas Reward Systems
Key Points for Managing Kaizen Idea Systems
101 Kaizen Templates: Kaizen Idea Suggestion Form
Three Essential Supervisor Skills for Standard Work
101 Kaizen Templates: Lean Leadership Self Check
101 Kaizen Templates: Daily Hansei Sheet (Pluses & Deltas)
Is Lean a Superstition?
101 Kaizen Templates: Motion Economy Chart
The Seven Steps to Zero Thinking
101 Kaizen Templates: Spaghetti Diagram
Kaizen Your Life with the Ten Lessons for Good Health
101 Kaizen Templates: Changeover Analysis
Management by Kaizen Events
101 Kaizen Templates: Takt Time Calculator
Exploring the "Respect for People" Principle of the Toyota Way
The Secret Lives of Toyota Term Employees, Episode 6
Breaking Down Barriers to Continuous Flow
Sustainability, the New Buzzword. But Is It Sustainable?
101 Kaizen Templates: ECRS Worksheet
What Can We Learn from Boeing's Lean Supply Chain Stumbles?
16 More Ways to See Motion Waste when Standing in the Circle
101 Kaizen Templates: Minor Motion Analysis
Lay First the Foundation of Humility
The Pros and Cons of Model Lines for Lean Implementation
101 Kaizen Templates: Safety Cross
101 Kaizen Templates: Stand in the Circle
The Secret Lives of Toyota Term Employees, Episode 5
101 Kaizen Templates: The Checklist
The Cadence of Kaizen
How to Sustain Kaizen? Follow Up with the Tenacity of the Terminator
Comments on Toyota President Watanabe's New Year's Greeting
101 Kaizen Templates
Tap Your Breaks Early and Often to Keep Work Flowing
Lean Management Means Shifting from PPT to PPS
Lean Enterprise Rules of Three
The Secret Lives of Toyota Term Employees, Episode 4
Start Simple, Go Back to Basics, Repeat
Toyota's Suggestion System: 56 Years and Still Going Strong
Lean Journey Advice from an Optimistic Hungarian Scientist
Direct Instruction, Standardized Work and Kaizen
Sensei and Sensibility
Muri, Hubris and the Laws of Proportion
Five Questions to Ask When You Hear "We're too busy for Lean"
What I Learned About TPS from Ratatouille
Jim Womack Interview in IndustryWeek - Nation Full fo Kaizen Consultants
The Three Habits Required for Built in Quality (Jidoka)
Four Things to Do Before Letting the Lean Consultants in the Door
A3 Problem Solving as a People Development Process
Management by FACTS!!
Top 10 Problems with Problem Statements
What is the Standard?
Free Videos on Lean Healthcare, Toyota Production System
Three of the Lessons Learned from Gemba's 2007 Hoshin Kanri
Why a Kaizen Newspaper is Called a Kaizen Newspaper
Thank You, Thank You, Sam-I-Am
Stumbling on the Lesser Category of Obstacles
Do You Understand the System of Profound Knowledge?
Seeing Problems for What they Are, Or Lean Insights from G.K. Chesterton
Alignment of People, Process and Purpose
Steelcase to Bring Lean Office to China?
Top 10 Lean Education Mistakes (and a Few Recommendations)
Lean Specialists, Lean Generalists and the Benefit of Half-Persons
The Open Office Comes to Silicon Valley
The First Step to Kaizen the Environment: Problem Awareness
Highlights from Lean Manufacturing Journey to the West
Guidelines for Continuous Moving Lines
Things to Leave Behind When Jumping Out of Airplanes
The Challenge of Lean Human Resource Development, and A Modest Proposal
Questions About Lean Manufacturing in China
Kaizen Song: Kits
Prioritizing the Elimination of the 7 Types of Waste
Ten Topics for Hansei After Kaizen Event
One Person, One Piece Flow
Work is Love Made Visible
Top 10 Success Factors for 5S
11 Ways to Improve Customer Service
Something Lacking in the TPS House
Gary Convis on the Role of Management in Lean Manufacturing
We Live in a Pull Universe
This Too is a Kanban
How the Skill Matrix Enables Downstream Pull
Push, Pull, Paper Clips & Problem Solving
Keep Your Kanban Cards Close to Your Genbutsu
The Push vs. Pull Diversion Diversion
The Secret Lives of Toyota Term Employees, Episode 3
What Are You Building?
Change Leadership, Not Change Management
Awareness of a Problem Does Not Mean Much
Hope for Chrysler
Job Breakdown Sheets for Teaching TPS
The Secret Lives of Toyota Term Employees, Episode 2
Kaizen Song: It's a Long Way to the Top (Teaching Takt, Flow, Pull)
Getting Started with Lean in the Office
Autonomous Maintenance in the Office
Lean Sigma Supply Chain
Top 10 Books on Lean Thinking
The Toyota Production System is Practice, Not Theory
Why You Need A Tatakidai
The Secret Lives of Toyota Term Employees, Episode 1
Target, Actual, Please Explain
Kaizen Song: We Demand Visual Controls
Is Your Lean Deployment "Made to Stick?"
The Essence of Shop Floor Management
Is the Theory of Constraints (TOC) a Theory?
45 Ways to Strengthen Kaizen Habits
Road Trips, Bad Directions & Going to Gemba
5S Know How from the Last Century
A Bureaucracy Which Enables Kaizen
Newt Gingrich Wants to Kaizen the U.S.A.
Toyota Production System Applied to Software Development
Three Key Points to Kaizen Your Communication
Tell Us Your Lean Failure Stories
Chrysler's (Lean?) Six Sigma Future
New & Improved Free Skill Matrix Template (v. 7.31.07)
Is IT the Key to Improving Healthcare Quality and Efficiency?
Why Is Your Lean Effort Failing?
The Importance of "So What?" in A3 Kaizen
A Closed Mitt and an Open Mind
Free Skill Matrix Template
TPS & the Tao
A Kaizen Team's Secret Ingredient: Negative People
Kaizen Song: Downstream Pull
There is No Honor in Muri
Lean for Airports (Dare to Dream...)
Challenge, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu, Respect, Teamwork
12 Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. to Inspire Change
Q&A During a Recent Gemba Walk
Is Michael Moore a Lean Thinker?
Top 10 Improvement Tools Named After Lean Sensei
New Metric for Lean Leadership: MTBFTFTBF
Three More Ways to Increase Personal Productivity through 5S
Toyota Production System A to Z
Your Lizard Brain Wants to Help You Be Lean
Intuition, Information and the Toyota Production System
The Apple iPhone Experience is Not Lean Consumption
Standard Work for the CEO
The Secret to Calculating Takt Time in Your Head, Fast
Taiichi Ohno's Revolution of Awareness
10 Common Misconceptions About Lean Manufacturing
This Week in Kaizen (Wk #25, 2007)
How Many Ways Can You Do Kaizen at Your Company?
What Does the Observer Have to Do with the Observed?
Job Instruction for Lean Transformation Leaders
Half of the intel in Google is wasted
Want to Learn Kaizen? Forget About It
A Standard Way of Starting Your Day
The Top 10 Suggestion System Stumbles and How to Avoid Them
Putting the Zen Back in Kaizen
Kaizen Song: Hey, Juneka
How to Reduce the Distance Between Management and Gemba
Three Mini Reviews of Lean Books
Lean in Japan, Or Not
How to Get Your Time Back
Kaizen of the Month for May 2007: Windows Hack *or* Chopping Away at the Six Big Losses
Habituation , Sensitization and Being Yelled At By Taiichi Ohno
How Does Lean Thinking Apply to Strategy?
Medicare May Stop Paying for Hospital Errors
Toyota Number One in the World... in Recalls?
Do Kaizen Like Toyota
Announcing the 5S Challenge Winners!
Lean Manufacturing by the Numbers
About this Blog
Zero Equals Seven in the Kaizen Mind
To KPO or Not to KPO?
5S Challenge: Which S Is Most Difficult and Why?
Will the Real TPS Sensei Please Stand Up?
Seven Ideas Towards a Healing Workplace
Five Lean Ideas to Reduce Hotel Energy Waste
100% Dissatisfaction is Our Goal
Standards, Abnormality and the Ideal
Warusa Kagen is a Revolution of Awareness
We Are Now Shipping Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management
Seek the Simple Solution from Many People
Wisconsin Continues to Lead in Lean Government
How to Use a Kaizen Newspaper
Lean Sourcing: The Top Three
Theme Blogging Week: Lean Sourcing
Building Quality Into the Teaching of Medicine
Ten Reasons Why One Piece Flow Will Not Work
What Would You Do If You Had No __?
The Best Visual Control in the World
A3 Report Title: PICK UP YOUR TOYS!!
Thank You
Review of The Elegant Solution by Matthew E. May
What I Learned Today of Value
A Fairly Lean Healthcare Experience
Layoffs, Strategy and the Bimodal Hump
How to Get What You Want in Four Easy Steps
Skill Matrix Tutorial, Part 1
Is Zero Defects Possible?
The Largest Room in the World
Why So Much Confusion About Kanban?
The Value of Figuring It Out for Yourself
White Space Muda
The Art of Nemawashi
Twelve Reasons to Tell Customers About Your Lean Manufacturing Efforts
Here are 4.5 Signs that Your Lean May be L.A.M.E.
Work in Process in Knowledge Work
Safety Glasses Are a Sign of Unsafe Processes
Reading Lean for Dummies
The Kaizen Mindset Requires Starting with Scarcity
Nine Rules for Fighting Endless Meetings
Taking the Toyota Production System to City Hall
Lean for People of Average Intelligence
The War On Waste
Quick Changeover and SMED for the Office
The 5 Why Questions, Like All Roads, Lead to Rome
Build a Workplace You Can Be Proud Of
Give Me 60 Minutes and I'll Give You a Lean Transformation
How Do You Sustain Improvement?
Lean Culture in a Temporary Workforce
Top 5 Things I've Never Heard from a Kaizen Team Member
How Much Should We Pay for Kaizen Ideas?
Scott County Schools Trying Out the Toyota Way
Genchi Gembutsu at the Starbucks Coffee Company
The Seven Habits of Toyota People
Lean Six Sigma is Not Lean
Let's Establish a Waste and Efficiency Tip Line... and then Another One
Getting the CEO on a Kaizen Team is Like Pulling Teeth
The Trouble with Exploring "all options" at Chrysler
Not Enough "Toyota Way" in Factory Air?
Toyota Rebrands in Canada
Standard Work Needed for Use of Windows
Rarely Has Ranting Been This Good
Building a Lean Video Library
How to Calculate Standard Work in Process (SWIP) Quantity
The Toyota Way is Doing Obvious Things
We Made Someone at Toyota Headquarters Unhappy
How to Motivate People to Change, Part 3
How to Motivate People to Change, Part 2
How to Motivate People to Change, Part 1
Toyota Production System Implementation at Japan Post, Year 4
Free Scholarship at the Lean Six Sigma Academy
Kaizen of the Month at Gemba, December 2006
Lean Manufacturing: A Five-Year Fix?
Japan Kaikaku Experience Field Report, January 2007
TPS Kids
Toyota Owes Grandpa Ford
Why Not Chase the Rabbit?
How Can They Not Change?
Does Lean Manufacturing = The Toyota Production System?
Giving A Shout Out to a Few Gemba Bloggers
Words of Taiichi Ohno Sensei, Part 4: It's a Race to Get People to Think
When Times Are Tough, Do You Make Better Decisions?
Buy Ford, Sell GM, Hold Toyota (but don't take investment advice from me...)
Top 5 Lean Manufacturing Books for Beginners
One More Reason Not to Shop at Wal-Mart
Endless Creativity, Inquisitiveness and Pursuit of Improvement
Top Five Non-Lean Things Gemba Did In 2006
Selecting a Management and Improvement System
Being an Improvement Agnostic
Holiday Shopping is Wasteful
Note to Toyota: Top Five Things to Do in 2007 as World's #1 Automobile Manufacturer
Ford CEO Mullaly's First Impressions
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 37: The Standard Time Should be the Shortest Time
When is Point Kaizen OK?
The Starfish, the Spider and the Span of Five
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 36: Only the Gemba Can Do Cost Reduction
Making a Business Out of Organizing (Making You Feel on Top of Things)
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 35: The Monaka System
And Now We Have "Kakushin" (sigh...)
When the Customer Defines Value, But They Define It Poorly What Do You Do?
How to Put Kaizen into Your Culture
One-Hour Low Tech Lean Introduction
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 34: The Pitfall of Cost Calculation
Hansei on Hansei
The ROI of an Open Office
Dilbert Rips Six Sigma
The Toyota Way is Total Company Discipline, Partial Study is GM's Failure
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 33: The Difference Between Production Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering
Thankful but Dissatisfied
How to Stay Out of Trouble with Mr. Convis
The Water Spider: What's in a Name?
What is a Kamishibai?
Dissatisfaction: The Essence of Toyota Management and the Kaizen Mindset
Top 5 Things I Learned in China Last Week
Why Six Sigma is Essential for Kaizen Success
Seeing the Lean in Milton Friedman's Ideas
Believing You Can Get Lean Makes You Leaner
Kaizen of the Month at Gemba, November 2006
The Toyota Preparation System or the “Bank of Preparation”
Applying Lean Manufacturing to University Libraries
Kaizen vs. Kaikaku
Toyota Botches Lean Implementation at Japan Post?
Things They Say at Toyota: Being Busy is Shameful
Taiichi Ohno's Book "Workplace Management" Returns to Print in 2007
Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement
Reflection (Hansei) is the Noblest Teacher
Don't Talk to Us About Toyota
Continuous Improvement Video from Genie Industries
How to Use 3P to Work Out Process Design Alternatives
Kaizen Suggestions at Nokia Factory in India Improve Quality
Educating People is Key to Operational Excellence
Lessons from Toyota's IT Strategy
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 32: Operational Availability vs. Rate of Operation
Things They Say at Toyota: Ask "Why?" Five Times
How Wipro Adapted the Toyota Production System to IT Work
How Do U Spell Quality?
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 31: There is a Correct Sequence to Kaizen
The View from the Other Side: Stop the Kaizen!
Learning English the Toyota Production System Way!
Free Turnaround Advice to All Struggling Airlines
Scottish Local Authority Wins Award for Kaizen
Operational Excellence Requires Kaizen and Respect for People
Toyota Production System as a Learning System
Not Trying to Coin A New Buzzword, But...
Copy + Kaizen = Yokoten
The Little Chip Fab that Could
Applying the 80-20 Rule to Kaizen
Things They Say at Toyota: Protect Your Own Castle
October: A Month of Lean-free Blogging
Lean Government Buzz in Scotland
Good Example of Pokayoke through Software Code
My Early Kaizen Days
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 30: Seiri Seiton Seiso Seiketsu Shitsuke
One Sign of a Lean Culture: Kaizen or Get Out
Lesson in Visual Management from GOL
A Workplace that Encourages Movement Gets Good Results
It's Not Really "Go See", It's "Go Observe"
Healthcare Costs Can Be Cut
How to Learn the Fundamentals of the Toyota Production System in 30 Days
What Experience Do You Have in My Industry?
Lean by Any Means Necessary
What is Flexibility for Lean Manufacturing?
Hoshin is 5S for Your Head
Workflow Design: Horizontal Handling vs. Vertical Handling
That's Not Cost Reduction, That's Stealing
A Heijunka Economy
Look Up from Your Work and Ask: "Could We Flow This?"
One Point Lesson: Operational Availability vs. Rate of Operation
Ouch! Change Hurts
While We're Promoting Lean Author Interviews on other Blogs...
Lean Blog Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Liker
What is Jishuken?
Can I Get an A3 Report with those 2.38 Million Recalls?
E-mail 5S
That's What I Call Cosmic Irony
The Kaizen Turnaround Kings at Danaher
The Environment Where Takt Time is Ideal
Kaizen Song: Ship It
This Is An Experiment
Lean Healthcare Plumbs New Depths at ?? Hospital
How Can American Government Meet Its Productivity Challenge?
I Mean It. Be Dissatisfied in the Work You Do
Visit Got Boondoggle? for the 10 Lessons to Kaizen the Kaizen
Top 3 Ways Kaizen Events Enable Culture Change
Kaizen in Software Development: Start by Seeing the 7 Wastes
Learning Lessons from Big Mistakes
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 29: Become a Reliable Boss
One Key to a Lean Culture: Be Dissatisfied in the Work You Do
When did Toyota Get to be a Company Like This?
One Definition of Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing, Chicken Knife. Six Sigma, Cow Knife.
I Want to Own a Chinese Sweatshop
Error Proof the Pokayoke to Build in Quality
See It, Smell It, Shanghai is Changing
Getting in the Habit of Change
Standard Work is Kaizen Instruction for Managers
Kaizen Song: g.e.m.b.a
What's Next After Lean?
Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 28: Wits Don't Work Until You Feel the Squeeze
Kaizen Secrets of the Toyota Mind
Words of Taiichi Ohno Sensei, Part 3: The Top 8 Pearls of Wisdom on Kaizen
Words of Taiichi Ohno Sensei, Part 2: Foreword from the First Textbook on the Toyota Production System
Words of Taiichi Ohno Sensei, Part 1: "I Never Said There Were 7 Types of Waste"
Spending Money to Hinder Leadership
Copy This: How AIRSpeed Copies Kaizen Ideas
How Toyota Used IT to Cut New Product Development Time in Half
Every Day is a Good Day for Daily Kaizen in Lean Healthcare
No One Does Lean Like the Japanese
Gemba Keiei Chapter 27: We Can Still Do a Lot More Kaizen
5S in the Office Saves Space, Expense Money and Time
The Top 10 Reasons to Start Lean Office and Lean Manufacturing at the Same Time
Kaizen Song: I Stop the Line
Credit Suisse Does Gemba Research
Gemba Keiei Chapter 26: There Are No Supervisors at the Administrative Gemba
How Toyota Uses Information Technology (IT) for Kaizen
Trying Out Herman Miller's New Cubicle: Not for the Lean Office
Doing More with Less in the Lean Office
Do Heijunka with Your Kaizen Efforts
Toyota Feels the Heat from Hyundai
Gemba Keiei Chapter 25: Work is a Game of Wits with Subordinates
The Lean Ranger in: The Workshop of the World, Part II
NHS Confederation Releases "Lean Thinking for the NHS"
Sell Complacency, Buy Kaizen
Lean Thinking & Google's 9 Notions of Innovation
Kaizen Song: Cycle Times They Are A-Changin’
Some Thoughts on Future State Value Stream Mapping
Gemba Keiei Chapter 24: Fight the Robot Fad
Lean Manufacturing Mantras
Giving Lean Healthcare a Bad Name
Kaizen Consultant Asks: "Why is this Here?"
Physiognomy & Phrenology vs. Root Cause Analysis & Kaizen
Kaizen the Design, Recall the Part
Gemba Keiei Chapter 23: Producing at the Lowest Possible Cost
Before Kaizen, Ask "If You Had Enough, Would You Know?"
Kaizen in the School System: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Problem Solving
Construction Executives Visit Toyota, Learn Kaizen
The Lean Office & The Typewriter of the Future
Gemba Keiei Chapter 22: Shut the Machines Off!
Hoshin Kanri Lesson: No Plan Goes According to Plan
Going Back to School for Hoshin Kanri
Lean Manufacturing in the Construction Industry
Good News! Hospitals are Healing Themselves through Kaizen
Gemba Keiei Chapter 21: Rationalization is Doing What is Rational
Five Practical Ways to Stay on the Sunny Side of Lean
Interview with Darius Mehri, Author of "Notes from Toyota-land"
Lean Production Does Not Respect People
Human Kanban
War, Oil and Lean Production
From the Mechanical Side to the Dark Side of Lean...
The 5 Steps to Building Jidoka Equipment
Gemba Keiei Chapter 20: What I Learned About Forging Changeover from Toyota do Brasil
Designing Processes to Fit Lean Manufacturing with the 16 Catch Phrases of 3P
The Top 5 Reasons for Using Production Preparation Process (3P)
Tame the Hedgehog, Name it Kaizen
Lean Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering & HRD: No Animals Today
Bill and Barry Grapple with the Lean Manufacturing Elephant
Following the Kaizen Process Out of the Lion's Den
Lean Broadcasting? NHK Calls Toyota for Help with Kaizen
Kaizen in a Petri Dish
Gemba Keiei Chapter 19: Toyota Made the Kanban System Possible
Lean Food Service: Cut Overproduction, Feed the Hungry
Job Shop Kaizen
First Face of Innovation: Go to Gemba
Gemba Keiei Chapter 18: Supermarket System
Reflections on Standard Work
What is Lean Government?
Gemba Keiei Chapter 17: The Goal - Improve Productivity Ten-Fold
TPS from the Horse's Mouth: View the Videos & Take the Quiz!
You've Gotta Go to Gemba More Often Than That!
Toyota Seeking Top Talent: Tightwads Only Need Apply
Gemba Keiei Chapter 16: Grandpa Sakichi's Jidoka Idea
5S Your Desk: And Other Tips for Office Productivity
The Problem of Excessive Executive Compensation for Lean Manufacturing
Gemba Keiei Chapter 15: Just In Time
Herman Miller NT Furniture is NoT Lean
College Dean Concludes: Kaizen Best Learned by Doing
The Link Between Gemba Kaizen and Human Resource Development
Gemba Keiei Chapter 14: Do Kaizen When Times Are Good
For Built-in Quality, Simple is Best
The Takt Time for Your Question is 42 Seconds
How Exactly Does Toyota Put People on the Balance Sheet as Assets?
Put People on the Balance Sheet
Lean Manufacturing Institute in Iowa: Will They Get it Right?
"Simple Slim" Engine Production Powers Profits at Toyota
Gemba Keiei Chapter 13: Improve Productivity Even with Reduced Volumes
Work Hard, Complain, and Do Kaizen
Better Safety and Ergonomics through Kaizen
State of Maine a Leader in Lean Government
Aberdeen Authority Reinvests in Kaizen Blitz Team
Why GM and Ford Can't Embrace the Toyota Way
Kaizen Resultant Gets Lean Government Results in Scotland
Experience Kaikaku, Day 5: What I Learned about Kaizen
Experience Kaikaku, Day 4: The KTC Way
Experience Kaikaku, Day 3: The Thinking Behind TPS
Experience Kaikaku, Day 2: Fun with Pipes & Joints
Experience Kaikaku, Day 1: The Airport
Minding the Length of a Toy Duck's Neck
Chief Quality Officer of GE: Six Sigma is Dead
Lean Office "Open Room" Foils Unethical Recruiter
We Don't Need a Big Culture Change at Ford. No Wait, Yes We Do!
The "Lean Manufacturing Push" at Chrysler
Reflecting on Toyota's 2,411,117 Recalls in 2005
How to Give Lean Manufacturing a Bad Name
Gemba's Consulting Work Featured on NIST Website
Pandemic Preparation: Just in Time or Just in Case?
Governor Vilsack Plans to Create Lean Manufacturing Institute in Iowa
Hope for Lean at Local Government Levels
Respect for People? Labor Unrest at Toyota Kirloskar
American Workers Embrace Kaizen Culture at NUMMI
Pit Crew Kaizen
Kaizen Means Thinking "Now Things are the Worst Ever"
Happy New Year, and Genchi Gembutsu
Business Process Outsourcing, Meet Value Engineering
Crossing the Chasm of Lean Transformation, Part 2
Crossing the Chasm of Lean Transformation, Part 1
How to Kaizen Boxing Day
Are they Nuts? Lean Team Shouts "Do It First and Think Later"
Lean Engineering and Taking Down the Walls
Faça Primeiro e Pense Depois: What I Learned from Japan in Brazil
I'll Have Some Innovation Please, but Hold the Kaizen
Dueling Views on Role of Kaizen Events for Lean Transformation
The Cheerful Delusion of the Kaizen Mind
A3 Report Title: 189 Apologies
Heads Firmly in Sand, Motor City Chairmen Speak Out
This Blog Has Been Kaizened to Accept Your Comments!
Lean Food Service in Korea Factory Cafeteria
Kaizen Blitz for Project Teams
Quick and Easy Kaizen for Project Teams
Workstream Kaizen for Project Teams
Workgroup Kaizen for Project Teams
Making the Case for Kaizen for Project Teams
The Kaizen Cops Clobber Government Waste in Kenya
Introducing Kaizen for Project Teams
Run Faster, Team
Gemba Keiei Chapter 12: Agricultural People Like Inventory
Triangulating the Problem of American Manufacturing, Part 2
Triangulating the Problem of American Manufacturing, Part 1
Norman Bodek Blogs about Kaikaku
The Perils of Not Going "Genchi, Gembutsu" (On Site, With the Actual Things)
Time for an Ohno Prize?
Setting the Bridges to Nowhere to the Torch
NAVAirspeed Merger to Take Kaizen to Next Level
Eric's Japan Lean Benchmarking Trip, 3
Peter Pan, Kaizen and Joseph Lieberman
GM Red Tags Dealer Inventory
Gemba Keiei Chapter 11: Wasted Motion is Not Work
In Defense of Mr. Rogers
Skill Matrix Enables Suggestion System
Lean Government Update Nov. 9, 2005
Eric's Japan Lean Benchmarking Trip, 2
Recommended Book: China, Inc. by Ted Fishman
Genchi Gembutsu in Aceh, Indonesia
Client tells Gemba: "We're Wasting Our Money by Paying You"
Eric's Lean Benchmarking Trip to Japan, Part 1
Design Process Around People
Gemba Keiei Chapter 10: The Misconception that Mass Production is Cheaper
Toyota Loves France!
Toyota is No Friend of the Earth, Say Greens
Tune into NUMMI Tour Tales
Kaizen Mindset at the Head of Chrysler
How Not to Spend $453 Million
Highlights from an Interview with Masaaki Imai
No Pushing
Tough Love for Delphi Leadership
Lean Applied to Food Service
Small Companies Playing With Big Company Rules
Toyota Kaizens... a Shrub?
Kaizen, Kangaroos & Kiwis
First, it's about People. Second...
Gemba Keiei Chapter 9: Reduced Inventory, Increased WIP
Kaizen in the Arabian Peninsula
Robots, Rabbits and Kaizen
What's so Bad about Assembly Line Healthcare?
What I Learned from a Marxist about Lean Manufacturing
Governor Vilsack Brings Lean Government to Iowa
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 8: Limited Volume Production is to Produce at Low Cost
Virtual JKE - Final Entry
Ford Adopts Toyota-style Supplier Strategy
Virtual JKE Day Five
Virtual JKE Day Four
Sitting Work vs. Standing Work in a Lean Manufacturing Workplace
Virtual JKE Day Three
Virtual JKE Part Two
Virtual JKE
Postal Service Provides Model for Lean Government
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 7: Don't Fear Opportunity Losses
Effective ERP Implementation
Work Content for Line Leads
Strong Supervision: The Key to Long-term Kaizen
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 6: The Blind Spot in Cost Calculation
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 5: Misconceptions Hidden within Common Sense
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 4: Go See What Didn't Work with Your Own Eyes
Wipro Studies TPS to Achieve Lean Transactions
Mr. Toyota Goes to Washington
Three Useful Phrases for Kaizen
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 3: Misconceptions Reduce Productivity
Developing Team Leaders through Kaizen
The Best Lean Factory in the USA?
Notes from the Field: Implementation and Continuity Safety Nets
Lean Healthcare: Increase Value or Reduce Waste?
Kaizen in the Naval Air Command
Lean Thinking at the LAPD
What About the 8th Waste?
Toyota Raises Prices, but Not for That Reason
Kaizen Teams & the Wisdom of Crowds
What You Can Learn in Traffic about Lean Manufacturing
Qingdao Haier's Bids for Maytag: LeanSigma Goes to China?
95% Cost Reduction: That's Kaikaku
Lean & Assembly Line Throughput Times
Making Work As Simple as Possible (but Not Simpler)
Holding Up the Top Half of the Value Stream Map
The Forest and the Trees: a Lesson in Change
Teaching Lean without Words
Balancing Market Leadership and Social Responsibility at Toyota
Book Review: One Small Step Can Change Your Life - The Kaizen Way
The State of Lean Healthcare: Critical Mass is Building
Hyundai Throws Down the Glove
It is Not Enough that Toyota Succeeds, GM Must Also Not Fail
Toyota's Lean Manufacturing Metrics
Lean Manufacturing with a Temporary Workforce
100% Efficiency is Not the Goal
Walls & Cubicles: Waste Multipliers in the Office
Subtle Shifts in the 7 Wastes of Lean
Motivating Smart People to Learn about Lean
Kaizen Event Fait Accompli
The Perfect World or Our Ideal World?
The Power of Mapping
Build a Lean Enterprise on a Stable Foundation
On-time Delivery Starts with Trust
OEE Basics from Europe
The Four Elements for Sustaining Kaizen
Keys to Sustaining 5S
Value Stream Maps & Right Brain Thinking
Where to Start the Lean Journey: 5S or with VSM?
Why does Toyota Share the Secrets of TPS?
Planning a Lean Journey? Take the Toyota Way
Genchi Gembutsu
TPS is the Thinking People System
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 2: If You Are Wrong, Admit It
A Sense of Urgency Like Smokey & the Bandit
Gemba Keiei, Chapter 1: The Wise Mend their Ways
The Trap of Managing by Computer Screens
TPM Metrics & Financial Impact
VP of Lean Enterprise Plays 20 Questions with Lean Managers
Introducing Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno
Ownership Generates Success
Where Does Lean Apply in Hospitals?
Keeping Minds Nimble, Bodies Limber at Toyota
Streamlining Eye Surgery: Innovation in India
In the News: Overproduction in Detroit
The Power of Ideas from Everyone
The Toyota Job Description: Follow Standards & Find Better Ways
Selling Autonomous Maintenance to the Machine Operator
One Piece Flow & Standard WIP
If You Want to Pull, Don't Deliver
Why Kaizen Teams Should Be Cross-Functional
Kaizen: Start with Production or "The Office"?
Flow Counterclockwise for a Good Reason
Making Standard Work Stick
Product Development Performance Metrics
Lean and Green
Takt Time for Executives
Extreme Programming & the Lean Office
Throughput, Bottlenecks, and Capacity: It's All in the TPCBP
Lean Fundamental: Do Today's Work Today
Sustaining Results in the Lean Office
Lean Customer Service
Questions from the Field #3: Lean Engineering
Questions from the Field #2: Lean Engineering
Questions from the Field #1: Lean Engineering
Quality & Law Enforcement: Detection vs. Prevention
Kaizen Events Build Buy-in
Kaizen is Like Climbing a Mountain: Drive Stakes in Along the Way
Kaizen is for Everyone, Everyday
Making Sense of Takt-Flow-Pull
Applying Flow to Healthcare
What is Jidoka? Test Drive a Minivan
Lean Practitioners Beware: You May be Tampering
Focus on Flow Streamlines 5S
Be Careful What You Measure, You Just Might Improve It
Attacking Waste in Knowledge Work
The Lean Factory is Not an Orchestra
Pockets of Improvement
