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Hope for Chrysler

By Jon Miller - September 9th, 2007

My hope for Chrysler is that Jim Press can act as a consensus builder and not a heroic, problem solving executive. What Chrysler doesn’t need is a wave of Toyota Production System implementation in their factories or a dose of To

Lean Sigma Supply Chain

By Jon Miller - August 31st, 2007

Lean Sigma Supply Chain is a blog full of thoughtful, pithy posts as well as the occasional deep dive into lean logistics or lean distribution know-how. Today’s post about 50 things to do to free up warehouse space is a grab bag

Is Your Lean Deployment “Made to Stick?”

By Jon Miller - August 21st, 2007

Mark Rosenthal is The Lean Thinker who connects the ideas from the book Made to Stick to visual controls used on the shop floor in a Lean factory. Mark argues convincingly for having “Sticky” Visual Controls in an article posted ye

Is the Theory of Constraints (TOC) a Theory?

By Jon Miller - August 18th, 2007

The tagline Theory of Constraints Exposed in an IndustryWeek article from March of this year got me thinking about TOC. Not a bad article by the way, although I’m still waiting for the Lean-TOC software system sales pitch shoe to

Road Trips, Bad Directions & Going to Gemba

By Jon Miller - August 15th, 2007

Thanks for telling us your lean failure stories, Andrea, Allison and Brad. You are all winners. E-mail or call us us with your mailing address and we’ll send you a prize. Speaking of things that can ruin a road trip as well as a

Chrysler’s (Lean?) Six Sigma Future

By Jon Miller - August 5th, 2007

The Chrysler Corporation has a new CEO, Bob Nardelli. Nardelli Picked to Run Chrysler in Industry Shift, the August 6th, Wall Street Journal reports. Mr. Nardelli was most recently in the news for bringing a controversial combativeness

New & Improved Free Skill Matrix Template (v. 7.31.07)

By Jon Miller - July 31st, 2007

New and improved free skill matrix template: these are beautiful words to the ears of a Lean thinker. Thanks to the Excel skills of our Lean office guru Marcie MacRae, we have “the kaizen of the month for July 2007” at Gemb

Why Is Your Lean Effort Failing?

By Jon Miller - July 29th, 2007

The Lean Blog is always a good place for insights and discussion on why Lean efforts struggle or fail. Previous discussions have delved into Lean efforts that are in fact LAME. Mark Graban wrote about the survey format of the Lean Inst

A Closed Mitt and an Open Mind

By Jon Miller - July 26th, 2007

Sorting through old documents as part of my regular 5S at the office I came across another consulting firm’s Lean training materials, collected about a decade ago. These explained Lean manufacturing and the idea of eliminating wa

Free Skill Matrix Template

By Jon Miller - July 25th, 2007

Here is a free skill matrix template in Microsoft Excel format. We receive many requests on this blog and to Gemba Research about the skill matrix template. The skill matrix is a very broadly useful visual management tool for people de

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