Tom Ehrenfeld: How do we convince others to be lean? By Tom Ehrenfeld, author of The Startup Garden and A Leader's Study Guide To The Gold Mine - Last updated: Monday, May 31, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment How can we convince decision makers that lean is not a program to justify, but a way of doing business to achieve superior performance? Art S...

Denis Sherwood: How would you develop innovation from lean and vice-versa? By Dennis Sherwood, Author of Forest for the Trees and Smart Things to Know about Innovation and Creativity - Last updated: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment I ran an innovation event with a manufacturer of pumps a couple of weeks ago, which went very well, w...

Mike Micklewright: Why Is Quality So Rarely Central In Lean? By Mike Micklewright, Author of 'Out of Another @#&*% Crisis!' - Last updated: Sunday, April 11, 2010 - Save & Share - One comment I see so many internal Lean “experts” using “Lean” as a means to increase efficiencies and productivity, and therefore, reduce costs.  They still do not see th...

Tom Ehrenfeld: How do Six Sigma and Lean fit together? By Tom Ehrenfeld, author of The Startup Garden and A Leader's Study Guide To The Gold Mine - Last updated: Sunday, April 4, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment How do Six Sigma and Lean fit together? Is one part of the other? Does one program cover more than the other? Or should the two not be comp...

Dennis Sherwood: what could be the 4 laws of “organodynamics”? By Dennis Sherwood, Author of Forest for the Trees and Smart Things to Know about Innovation and Creativity - Last updated: Friday, March 12, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment If thermodynamics is the science of getting useful work out of engines, then surely organodynamics is the scienc...

Rob Austin: What advice can lean offer about breaking the dysfunctional cycle of “fire fighting”? How do you shift the focus from urgent rework to systematic improvement? By Robert Austin, co-author of Artful Making - Last updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment I know of a service delivery organization plagued by administ...

Jacques Chaize: How is Lean to be Maintained in the Long Term? By Jacques Chaize, President of Danfoss Socla; co-founder of SOL-France; author of Quantum Leap - Last updated: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment “We’ve been working with lean for several years and have had significant results, both financially and in terms of chang...

Tom Ehrenfeld: What is to be learned from Toyota now? By Tom Ehrenfeld, author of The Startup Garden and A Leader's Study Guide To The Gold Mine - Last updated: Friday, January 29, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment Toyota is making news for its product recalls and for suspending production on the bulk of its models to work out its problems. Naturally...

Peter Senge: In transformations such as the lean management movement suggests, how do you help people discover the depth of personal commitment it takes to lead such changes? By Peter Senge, Author of The Fifth Discipline - Last updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment In integrating lean and systems thinking in a genuine lea...