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Lean and Meaningful: Creating Leaner Value Streams: Are the pacemaker and the bottleneck the same?
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. Creating Leaner Value Streams: Are the pacemaker and the bottleneck the same? When designing leaner value streams, one key step is to define where to locate the pacemaker. However, a common misconception is to believe that the bottleneck process is the pacemaker. While a pacemaker could coincide with the bottleneck process, they mean different things. What is the bottleneck? What is the pacemaker? Answer this quest...
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Lean and Meaningful: December 2014
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. What can Americans and Scottish whiskey distilleries learn from the car industry? These days Americans and Scottish whiskey distilleries might feel uncomfortable on the news that the title of the finest whiskey in the world has been given to their Japanese competitor. The telegraph Nov 4, 2014. Washington Post Nov 5, 2014. More than just great quality water. While the lack of tradition and the availability of great...
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Lean and Meaningful: Lean transformation is more than Operation Effectiveness
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Key Learnings on Continuous and Breakthrough Improvement by Using Lean, TPS and Six Sigma. Lean transformation is more than Operation Effectiveness. If you believe that Lean is about operation effectiveness, you most likely would fail on creating a sustainable superior performance. Perhaps the world’s most known business-school professor, in his “ What is Strategy? Porter defined Operation Effectiveness. 8220; performing similar activities better than rivals perform them. Mistake-proofing solutions confu...
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LeanRI.org: August 2009
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009. Another Great Lean Healthcare Story. Original Article appears at http:/ www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm? Streamlining at St. Joseph Medical Center. Daily Record Business Writer. August 25, 2009 7:38 PM. St Joseph Medical Center has taken notice of the Toyota Way. Two years ago, St. Joseph brought in Dave Norton, a 37-year auto industry veteran who worked for Toyota and General Motors, to lead its lean efforts. 8220;If you’re coming into the emergency department, your m...
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LeanRI.org: The Healthcare System Needs Lean More than Ever
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Monday, August 10, 2009. The Healthcare System Needs Lean More than Ever. Here's a link to a cnnmoney.com article regarding waste in the Healthcare industry. certainly not new news, but the numbers are huge. Http:/ finance.yahoo.com/insurance/article/107498/health-care-six-money-wasting-problems.html? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Exceeda Consulting, Inc. The 5 S Store. Lean in Government Starter Kit. Gemba Panta REI Blog. The Northwest Lean Networks. The Art of Lean. Lean Six Sigma Academy.
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LeanRI.org: Another Great Lean Healthcare Story
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009. Another Great Lean Healthcare Story. Original Article appears at http:/ www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm? Streamlining at St. Joseph Medical Center. Daily Record Business Writer. August 25, 2009 7:38 PM. St Joseph Medical Center has taken notice of the Toyota Way. Two years ago, St. Joseph brought in Dave Norton, a 37-year auto industry veteran who worked for Toyota and General Motors, to lead its lean efforts. 8220;If you’re coming into the emergency department, your m...
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LeanRI.org: VIBCO Vibrators Lean Transformation featured in new GBMP Lean Training Video “VIBCO Vibration Nation: Learning to See”
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009. VIBCO Vibrators Lean Transformation featured in new GBMP Lean Training Video “VIBCO Vibration Nation: Learning to See”. 8220;VIBCO Vibration Nation: Learning to See" is a high-energy, Virtual Plant Tour and lesson designed to train, educate, motivate and inspire viewers to embrace a lean philosophy and grow a lean culture. VIBCO's results are staggering:. 8226; $2 million inventory reduction. 8226; 35% more customers. 8220;We are really excited about the release of this DVD!
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LeanRI.org: Presidents University Attracts A Huge Audience
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Presidents University Attracts A Huge Audience. A photo gallery from our VIBCO President's University event yesterday (6/15/09). We had more than 45 LEAN thinkers in attendance from government, business, medicine, non-profit. The LEAN movement is gaining momentum! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Exceeda Consulting, Inc. The 5 S Store. Lean in Government Starter Kit. Gemba Panta REI Blog. The Northwest Lean Networks. The Art of Lean. Lean Six Sigma Academy.
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LeanRI.org: Sailing a Straight Course in a Time of Variances
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Sailing a Straight Course in a Time of Variances. The following is from Jim Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute. Recently I spent a day as a lean anthropologist, sitting in the back of the room and observing the behavior of senior managers during the monthly leadership team meeting of a large corporation. I hadn't done this in some years and it caused me to reflect again on how organizations do strange things, particularly in difficult times. Or was it all three? Are we all c...