Plus: Looking ahead for constraints; Finish meeting on time; Bringing up improvements in meeting; Good presentation on six week batch plan and schedule; Adding Saturday at beginning of week on weekly plan. Delta: Silence phones during meeting; Improve QAQC tracking report.
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Plus: Start on time and finish early; good content; multi-disciplinary group; good turnout; high level of engagement; leadership engagement. Delta: Provide a bigger training room; improve projection technology; train a smaller group; provide name tags; clean the hats.
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Plus: Outstanding presentation; Presentation electronics worked well; Spirit of experimentation and PDCA on the project. Delta: Better directions to location; provide requests from project team to leadership for support; Adjust agenda to focus only on project review; Invite teams from other projects; Determine a way to provide updates on progress with new phase plan to leadership.
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A November/December Chief Executive magazine article identified an increasing trend of large companies acquiring small companies as a means of renewing growth. The “new approach” increases large companies’ exposure to new products, technologies, people and creativity. The idea reportedly is to compress the amount of time required to find and develop worthy new ideas and
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A couple of weeks ago many flights leaving Boston were delayed up to an hour because the hoses supplying planes with potable water had frozen and planes had to be supplied by a limited number of water tank trucks. The cold had been forecast and below freezing temperatures are nothing new in Boston, so this
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On the Mend, Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Loves and Transform the Industry is the story of a Lean transformation by ThedaCare, a healthcare system based in Wisconsin. The book provides stories about the Lean thinking based changes ThedaCare made, the challenges those changes entailed, and the effort it took for Lean to gain traction in the
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Reviewing my notes from October’s Lean Construction Institute Annual Congress I came across the following point Steven Spear made during his breakout session that ought to be printed and fastened above the door leaving every enterprise facility. “Performance results from out-learning others.” Steve’s statement is perhaps less elegant than “Play like a champion today” yet
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Identified and generally accepted as a primary Lean principle is the importance of identifying value from the Customer’s perspective (see www.lean.org). The corollary of this principle and its primacy along with other Lean principles and practices is that Lean thinking views creating value for the Customer the purpose of an enterprise. It’s important to recognize
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A recent article in Boston Magazine regarding the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) financial woes is a reminder of how seductive the drive for resource efficiency can be. The MBTA is the public transit agency for the greater Boston area, serving transit needs with a network of rail, light-rail and bus routes. Without taking a
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There is a very healthy amount of research regarding the performance of endurance athletes, and Lean thinkers especially ought to take a close look at this work for ideas that can be productively applied toward improving enterprise performance. High performing endurance athletes train continuously. They do so not only to improve, but because not training
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