3Cs of the Lean Cycles: SDCA, PDCA, EDCA
Do you have 90 Seconds to improve your Lean Thinking? YouTube:https://youtu.be/WZDEoSdT2Q0
Are You Hiring Learners?
I think about Lean as a knowledge creation model. PDCA provides feedback to justify our hypotheses and increase our knowledge. The rate of change or the speed of the improvement is a key competitive factor in today’s world. PDCA allows for major jumps in performance not through massive breakthroughs but through frequent small improvements. However, Read More …
How do you put Lean Thinking into use?
When I am working, I naturally migrate from different stages of thinking through the Lean Cycles of CAP-Do, SDCA, PDCA, EDCA. I use all of them at a micro and macro level but often in very different ways. Reading the book Making Thinking Visible (Amazon Link: http://amzn.to/2wXnL0Q) helped me collect my thoughts on this subject. Read More …
How do you think about Lean?
How does Lean flow in your mind? In your practice of it? Below is a 5-minute video on my initial thoughts. Additional information is available in this LinkedIn article: http://bit.ly/2xG85jK YouTube: https://youtu.be/o9o8M45aYLg
Mastering Doing It
According to biz-life strategist TEDx speaker Cortney McDermott, and new author of the book, Change starts within you, now is the perfect time to master your to-do list. “There’s something about the instant gratification of checking off or, even better, drawing a thick line through a ‘to-do,’” says McDermott, author of Change Starts Within You. “But it’s not about chasing gold Read More …
Using SOAR at a Macro & Micro Level
The first steps of any Lean process are to identify value and create a current state. When working on the demand side of the equation, why should we identify the process through Non-Value Activities defined as waste (Weaknesses and Threats) versus the Value Added activities of SOAR? I often use SOAR in the initial sequence Read More …