Lean starts with one question: what constitutes value for the customer? Yet most Lean initiatives focus almost exclusively on the production side—more efficient processes, less waste, shorter lead times....
Lean starts with one question: What is value for the customer? Yet...
You don’t understand Lean by reading about it. You understand it by doing it, and only then do you understand why it worked. That belief is at the heart of Kaizen...
You don’t understand Lean just by reading about it. You understand it by...
You don’t understand Lean by reading about it. You understand it by doing it, and only then do you understand why it worked. That belief is at the heart of Kaizen...
You don’t understand Lean just by reading about it. You understand it by...
Toyota's approach is based on two pillars: continuous improvement and respect for people. The first pillar has yielded a wealth of literature. The second is surprisingly often overlooked, or is...
Toyota's approach is based on two pillars: continuous improvement and respect for people....
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Black Belt training, but also want to achieve real results with your improvement project? Then personal coaching is the key to success. Experience shows that participants...
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Black Belt training, but really...
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Black Belt training, but also want to achieve real results with your improvement project? Then personal coaching is the key to success. Experience shows that participants...
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Black Belt training, but really...
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Green Belt training, but also want to achieve real results with your improvement project? Then personal coaching is the key to success. Experience shows that participants...
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Green Belt training, but really...
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Green Belt training, but also want to achieve real results with your improvement project? Then personal coaching is the key to success. Experience shows that participants...
Do you not only want to follow the Lean Green Belt training, but really...
Botswana. A modest auto repair shop and real estate agency called Ngami. A team of employees with little education, few resources, and little faith that things could be different. And one woman who is convinced...
Botswana. A small auto repair shop and real estate agency called Ngami. A team of employees...
Lean has its own language. Anyone who works with it will sooner or later come across terms like heijunka, poka-yoke, jidoka, or takt time: words that are used in training sessions as if everyone...
Lean has its own language. Anyone who works with it will sooner or later come across...
With 14 new definitions covering management, healthcare, startups, manufacturing and services, the 5th edition of the Lean Lexicon is the most complete edition to date of...
With 14 new definitions covering management, healthcare, startups, manufacturing,...
"The real difference between Toyota and other automakers isn't the Toyota Production System. It's the Toyota Product Development System." — Kosaku Yamada, chief engineer of the Lexus ES 300 Everyone...
"The real difference between Toyota and other car manufacturers isn't the Toyota..."
In 1990, Womack and Jones described in *The Machine That Changed the World* what set Toyota apart from other automakers. That book laid out the facts. *Lean Thinking*, published...
In 1990, Womack and Jones described in *The Machine That Changed the...*
"Learning to See" is the standard workbook for Value Stream Mapping: the method that helps you identify where value is created in your production process and where it is not. The workbook was...
"Learning to See" is the standard workbook for Value Stream Mapping: the method...
