Overcome 5 common challenges in executing your strategic plan

Strategy deployment and execution is vital and compelling but challenging as well. The internet is full of advice and approaches to overcome the obstacles, but usually those are quite complexe, adding even more challenges. The barely known Goal Tree elegantly solves many issues and provides simple help to overcome the difficulties, in one single logical …

Lean, Industry 4.0 and catalog shoppers

November 2020, the Lean Enterprise Institute posted a podcast with Mark DeLuzio, Art Byrne, and Jim Womack titled Lean Lessons From Danaher and Beyond. Among the lively exchanges between the guests, Jim Womack’s mention of Lean, Industry 4.0 and catalog shoppers caught even more of my attention. You may listen to the podcast here: https://www.lean.org/podcast/5418 …

Gemba walk: discover, standardize, comply

It’s a recurring question for a novice Gemba Walkers: what should I look for while touring the shop floor? Hints and checklists abound on the Net and I have proposed mine. But in the digital age, Process Mining may inspire the Gemba Walkers as long as the processes to walk are still physically existent. Go …

Logical Thinking Process Elements

You may have watched some of my videos or read  some of my articles on this topic and  I hope that you’ve found some interest.  But I realize that some of you may lack the basic knowledge about the Logical Thinking Process, therefore I propose this crash course. It is not intended to turn you into …

Process Mining Software can draw your spaghetti diagrams

One underrated tool in the Lean toolbox is the spaghetti diagram. Usually long and requiring painstaking efforts to draw, it may be shown only once, but the displayed Current Reality in the single picture is well worth the thousand words, and the investment to draw it. In the digital age, spaghetti diagrams now come almost …