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Nine Rules for Fighting Endless Meetings

By Jon Miller - March 15th, 2007

I’ve heard that at Toyota the meetings are 60 minutes long, with 50 minutes of actual meeting time and 10 minutes to get to the next meeting. The use of the standardize A3 size one-page format to communicate the progress on PDCA

Oops!

By Ron - March 14th, 2007

I was just made aware that when you post a blog highlighting other good blogging links from the week you should call this a “carnival.” I called it a blogroll a few weeks back. You learn something new everyday!

Taking the Toyota Production System to City Hall

By Jon Miller - March 14th, 2007

There was an encouraging article about Lean government in the March 15, 2007 NB Online (Nikkei Business) titled City Hall in Aichi Studies at Toyota to “Enhance the Capabilities of the Staff” (愛知の市役所がトヨタ

Confused about Waste

By Ron - March 13th, 2007

A while back I wrote about how I felt waiting was the worst of the 7 wastes. OK, so being trapped on an airplane may have influenced that post a bit but I bring it up since I outlined the 7 (or 8 depending on whose book you read) deadl

Lean for People of Average Intelligence

By Jon Miller - March 12th, 2007

When do you know a management concept has hit the mainstream? Like a bug to a windshield, “Lean” as a management approach has now hit bookshelves in the form of Lean for Dummies. It set me off on a minor rant in the office

TPS and Family Time

By Ron - March 11th, 2007

For some reason a book I had never read, and should have read many years ago, is the masterpiece The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker. Well the drought is over as I am presently devouring the book. It is a good book so far (I’m in chapter

The War On Waste

By Jon Miller - March 11th, 2007

During training in how to do kaizen, a key activity is helping people understand the concept of waste and make it relevant to their own organization and to their own work. As long as waste is something abstract, or something that happe

Six Sigma City Magazine – Free

By Ron - March 10th, 2007

I just came across a pretty slick online magazine. Follow this link and gain access to the new online Six Sigma City Magazine. It’s free (for now at least). Until next time, I wish you all the best on your journey towards continu

Get on your Knees

By Ron - March 9th, 2007

I just read Mike Wrobleski’s recent post on leadership. It was good but actually sparked another thought in my mind related to a previous post he made some time ago after he went to the, oh I pray I get to go one day, Japan Kaikaku E

Quick Changeover and SMED for the Office

By Jon Miller - March 9th, 2007

A reader named Sonu read the article Kaizen is Like Climbing a Mountain: Drive Stakes in Along the Way. She asked, “Can single-minute exchange of dies concept be used in the office?” Yes! Since SMED or single-minute exchang

Month: March 2007