5s Improves Organizational Standards for Efficiency, Effectiveness and Success 5s is a systematic corrective action technique to clean up, get organized and make this the way you do business. In service organizations, the problems identified in 5S not only rob your organizations’ productivity but also your customers. Service environments are especially prone to this waste. Read More …
Standardizing your work provides opportunity to spread it within your organization and make it easier for customers to go deeper into your organization for knowledge sharing. This provides a flood of new ideas for innovation and co-creation opportunities. But even more importantly it secures a vendor-customer relationship or partnership that is difficult for others to Read More …
What’s more rewarding — eating a piece of candy, or the sense of anticipation you feel just before you eat it? As far as your brain is concerned, it’s probably the latter. Cynergey’s Kes Sampanthar explains what dopamine reveals about the neuroscience of motivation. The latest Lean thoughts about seeking perfection have been Read More …
After you create flow, the next Lean step is to establish pull. This is not any more difficult than the other Lean steps but may be the one most understood. Pull will not work unless you have created flow and our working to takt time (takt time sets the pace of production to match the Read More …
The Lean definition of flow goes something like this, the accomplishment of steps within a value stream so that a product or service proceeds from the beginning of the value stream to the customer without waste. Most Lean transformations first step is thinking and improving flow. They start many times with 5S (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Read More …
When people hear the term “Map the Value Stream,” their thoughts often go to the Value Stream Mapping (VSM) Process. Value Stream Mapping as depicted in “Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA is the accepted method throughout the United States. It is primarily oriented toward manufacturing. In recent times Read More …