Lean Management

Lean Principles

• Respect for people: it starts with saying hello

Lean transformation

• Lean Transformation Model by John Shook
• Why I don’t like Lean houses, except one
• Lean transformation model as TP trees

Lean Thinking

Chris HOHMANN – Author & owner of this blog

• Value, value-added, value stream
• Why this lean obsession about waste?
• If tool age didn’t pave the way of management age
• Lean Thinking and Zero-Base Budgeting (ZBB)
• What Candy Crush Saga can teach (Lean) Management – One more management lesson from candy crush
• The Catalyst

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Lean Management tools

• Measurement is the first improvement step – What data for changeover monitoring and improvement?
• Solve problems and improve with few, messy data – Interference Diagram
• Hoshin Kanri or policy deployment and How Goal Tree can help Hoshin Kanri
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM) – What is VSM good for?
• Gemba, what is gemba?
• Gemba walk: what is a gemba walk? – Chek-lists for gemba walks – Five good reasons to gemba walk – Goal-focused gemba walks – Gemba walk: go for the why, not the who (don’t look for someone to blame) – Gemba walk: discover, standardize, comply
• Scrutiny as talent
• A3 problem solving >Deeper into A3 reports >Four uses of A3 reports
• Operational coaching
• What is Kaizen? Learn about continuous improvement. What is a Kaizen event? – Downsides of Kaizen events
• What is supplier development?

How Lean are you?

Lean Assessment – A series of posts on how to assess leanness.

• Part 1 to 4 is about trying to setup significant metrics to measure and benchmark.
  • Part 1: Assessing Lean awareness
  • Part 2: Awareness / performance matrix
  • Part 3: plotting the dot in awareness /performance matrix
  • Part 4: Defining the measurement metrics
• Part 5 is about qualitative approach
• Part 6 describes gemba walk as lean assessment for qualifying audit

How can Lean help shaping the future?

• Introduction
• Part 1: Value Stream Design
• Part 2 : Lean engineering

How can Lean help startups?

• Introduction
• How Lean can help startups – Do not repeat mistakes of established companies 1/2
• How Lean can help startups – Do not repeat mistakes of established companies 2/2

Myths and realities about Lean

• Reflecting on Lean – Lean Confusion by Jill Jusko
• The fallacy of bottom-up Lean initiatives – Part 1
• The fallacy of bottom-up Lean initiatives – Part 2
• We are all Lean now, what’s next?
• When Lean increase costs
• Are we Lean Thinking without even noticing?
• Lean rule of thirds
• 5 ways Lean guys trigger rejection on shopfloor
• Is Lean about eliminating waste or not?
• OEE rescue: OEE is composite and does not tell much per se

Failures

Many organizations undertake a Lean journey and many fail after some time, sliding back to old habits and usual performance. What is behind those failures and how to prevent them?

• Lean, so many failures ?
• Lean failures and Jim Womack’s 3P
• Improvements that last are built on stable employees’ layer

Other resources about Lean Management

• Jeffrey Liker Toyota Way free audiobook
• The Challenge of Developing Lean Management by Mike Rother (Conference on Youtube)