Collection: Starting with Lean

Problem-solving is a skill. It’s not a talent you either have or don’t have, but something you can learn—provided you know how to structure your thought process. Problem-solving...

The principles of Lean aren't complicated. What is complicated is truly understanding them, beyond the definitions and tools. To the point where you see them everywhere around you...

For decades, Toyota has been the most studied manufacturing company in the world. Not because it is the largest, but because it consistently outperforms the competition in terms of quality, efficiency, reliability, and...

You know there’s waste in your processes. You can feel it. But you don’t see it. Not really. And you can’t improve what you don’t see. That...

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...

Lean transformations rarely fail due to a lack of knowledge about the tools. They fail because people don’t get on board. Because managers know what just-in-time is, but not how to get a team moving...

"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...

Lean transformations rarely fail due to a lack of knowledge about the tools. They fail because people don’t get on board. Because managers know what just-in-time is, but not how to get a team moving...