Rob Austin: Can lean help operational managers realize specific targets on schedule?
By Robert Austin, co-author of Artful Making - Last updated: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - Save & Share - One comment
As a financial manager, what I’d really like from operational managers is a commitment to realizing specific targets–cost reduction, productivity improve...
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Lean Edge Response
Improvement Is Usually Not Simple Or Easy
Tom Ehrenfeld: Can you teach the lean ideal of respecting people without actually bullying them?
By Tom Ehrenfeld, author of The Startup Garden and A Leader's Study Guide To The Gold Mine
From a distance, lean looks like such a nice, humanistic improvement approach—one that treats people with respect and generates knowledge from the ground up. That’s all well and good, bu...
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A Methodical Approach to Change Management
Rob Austin: how do we assuage fear of cost-cutting in times of crisis?
By Robert Austin, co-author of Artful Making - Last updated: Sunday, December 6, 2009 - Save & Share - One comment
As exciting as the lean ideas are, there’s a concern a person might have that starts with the name: Lean. As in “lean and mean” or as in “cut your staff by half to make...
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Introducing the Lean Edge
I had an invitation recently to participate in a new website called The Lean Edge with some fellow lean authors. The concept is that various authors will be asked a question by a guest participant. Each author will answer the question with a few paragraphs of response. The idea is not to give the same answer but to give some different replies from different points o...
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