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Art of Lean on Problem-Solving, Part 4: Military Science and Leadership
In the fourth part of his problem-solving series, Art borrows from the many branches of the U.S military and their corresponding training methods, arguing that lean can learn a thing-or-two from the military. Find a transcript for the video below. Hi everyone. This is Art Smalley, President of Art of Lean, Incorporated. Today, in conjunction with the Lean Enterprise Institute, I'm going to bring you another short video on the topic of coaching and problem-solving.
ALERT FOR CONSERVATIVES | Cooper trying to monkey with in-person voting
ALERT FOR CONSERVATIVES | Cooper trying to monkey with in-person voting September 2, 2020 | By Special to the County Compass By Jim Womack | North Carolina Conservative Coalition This is a statewide alert that Governor Roy Cooper is seeking to circumvent the will of the North Carolina General Assembly ) and potentially interfere with the procedures for in-person voting in the November 3, 2020 general election.
Jim Womack on the lean shut-down of Toyota Australia
WOMACK'S YOKOTEN – On October 3, Toyota will cease its manufacturing operations in Australia, but the way it is managing the transition - in the leanest way possible - holds great lessons for us all. We all love a start-up. A world of opportunities where no mistakes have been made and no legacy assets hold us back. And in the Lean Community we love a lean start-up even more, with enhanced prospects for getting the product right and a chance to avoid introducing muda in any value-creating process.
Lean in higher education: improving Macquarie University
CASE STUDY – An Australian university has been applying lean to streamline and improve its processes, discovering along the way how big a change the methodology can affect in the organization's culture. Shortly after being appointed at Macquarie University in 2013, the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor S Bruce Downton, conducted a consultative process across the university to establish a strategic plan. Focus groups, surveys and town halls were conducted to gather staff input.
"What Do I Need to Know?"
I am a huge fan of Gwendolyn Galsworth’s Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking. She describes a visual workplace as “using visual devices for answering all the questions anyone has related to work…questions that are commonplace as well as those so specialized that others would have never thought, in a million years, to ask such a thing.” It’s the first of these questions she then lists - “What do I need to know?” - that I found most impactful.
lean transformed automotive once and can do it again
WOMACK’S YOKOTEN – In this month’s column, Jim shares an insightful analysis of the trends and dynamics of today’s automotive industry and looks at the opportunity that lean has to facilitate its next transformation.
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