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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 05/12/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Another Customer Story I was in a newly opened store of a large big-box outdoor sports store, and saw an item on display that I had already decided to buy this summer. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 05/09/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
“No Question…Sketch!” One of the more famous tools taught by Chihiro Nakao of Shingijutsu fame is to direct the learner to observe an operation and “sketch the flows. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 05/08/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Struggling to Learn One of the challenges of teaching and consulting is resisting the temptation to give people the answers. Honestly, I like giving people the answers. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 05/08/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Scrap Bin Kaizen If you are in a production operation, be it a factory or even administration, take a look in your scrap bins (or trash cans). What you find there can be very informative. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 05/06/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Toyota Kata at lean.org Mike Rother sent out an email today pointing out that the Lean Enterprise Institute’s web site now has a Toyota Kata page. I believe this is a significant event for the lean community as a whole, as well as for the LEI. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 04/27/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Failure as Success A great insight from a client today. The target condition at this point is simply to establish some degree of transparency of the current condition on a status board without having to resort to probing questions to elicit what is working, and what is not. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 04/22/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Make a Rule / Keep a Rule I was driving home today and saw a construction sign on the sidewalk. It read: “Sidewalk Closed, Use Other Side.” Ahead was a section of the sidewalk which was, indeed, closed off and impassible. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 04/20/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Changing Routines This video by Charles Duhigg is promoting his book The Power of Habit . I haven’t read the book but there is a lot of study that draws the same basic model. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 04/12/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Learning vs Teaching Coincidently my experience this week ties in nicely to the last post. I have a couple of teams working to develop pull systems through their respective work areas. read more
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Contributor: Mark Rosenthal
Contributor: 04/11/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT
Learning vs. Knowing (or not) PC once again left a provocative post in the Lean Thinker’s Community, and gave us a link to this Tim Harford TED talk that drives home the point that learning and improvement is more about rapidly discovering things that don’t work than about designing things that do. read more
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How to Predict the Next “Big Thing”: Want to predict future trends that will impact your business? It’s not as difficult as it seems if you know a few essentials. read more
William Cohen | Peter F. Drucker | demographic change
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