Matt Wrye, a Lean Implementer that has a passion for continuous learning was my guest on the Business901 podcast, Developing a Learning A3 and the transcription, Developing a Learning A3 Transcription. We discussed using the tool of A3 for their learning reports. Below are several formats for your use. I recommend viewing one before reading Read More …
A Lesson in Problem Solving: Go back to school for a second, maybe even as far back as grade school, and think about solving mathematical word problems. Remember with word problems, each problem described a situation that involved numerical relationships. However, the situation and those relationships first had to be interpreted and understood. Then it Read More …
Description of the Components of the A3 Countermeasures Identify countermeasure(s) to eliminate the root cause(s): we either get paralyzed by analysis or we jump to this point, offering solutions too quickly. If the problem is well-defined and the root cause is verified then the appropriate countermeasures are seldom difficult. This is where if you walk Read More …
We will spend this section on the left side of the A3 or the planning process. Description of the Components of the A3 Team: The team selection is very important in developing A3s. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of collaboration and building a team. You should go to great lengths to find people who Read More …
A3s are a formal process to document and report solutions in a storyboard fashion on a single sheet of paper. It actually takes a big piece of paper, 11 x 17, or two 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. The paper is laid out with the left side defining the problem and the right side proposing Read More …
A3s are an excellent way to communicate with your team members and other members of the organization. How many times have you picked up a piece of paper and spent much of your time figuring out how the information was organized? Once you did this, you then spent the rest of your time connecting the Read More …