John Hunter<p>"It is a shame so many think lean is equal to “reducing staff.” Lean is about removing waste. Removing waste might mean that fewer people are needed but no real <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a> organization aims to reduce staff..."</p><p>It is true most organization don't think systemically or respect people. Some of those companies may use the term "lean" but that is not what they are doing.</p><p><a href="https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/05/lean-thinking-misconception/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">management.curiouscatblog.net/</span><span class="invisible">2006/05/05/lean-thinking-misconception/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Leadership</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/respect_for_people" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>respect_for_people</span></a></p>
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John Hunter<p>It is a shame so many think lean is equal to “reducing staff.” Lean is about removing waste. Removing waste might mean that fewer people are needed but no real lean thinking organization aims to reduce staff.<br />...<br />it would be much better to redeploy staff not needed for streamlined processes to other jobs to service the companies growing business...</p><p><a href="https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/05/05/lean-thinking-misconception/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">management.curiouscatblog.net/</span><span class="invisible">2006/05/05/lean-thinking-misconception/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Leadership</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/respect_for_people" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>respect_for_people</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>Who would I select, as the leaders of management improvement (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a>, six sigma, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/systems_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>systems_thinking</span></a> continual improvement, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/customer_focus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>customer_focus</span></a>, innovation, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Leadership</span></a> quality management, theory of constraints…) thought and practice in 2006?</p><p><a href="https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/01/17/management-improvement-leaders/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">management.curiouscatblog.net/</span><span class="invisible">2006/01/17/management-improvement-leaders/</span></a></p><p>Russell Ackoff – I find it difficult to imagine a list <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> thought leader list, not including his name...</p><p>George Box: statistics, design of experiments, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>data</span></a> ...</p><p>James Womack and Daniel Jones...<br />Eliyahu M. Goldratt...</p>
John Hunter<p>...I would say we too often criticize lean based on very poor applications called "lean." Studying Toyota is what gave us the name lean. Toyota has significant investments over the very long term in robotics; they innovated to create the Prius (and still dominate the hybrid market) and invest in research on things including home building, biotechnology and a thought controlled wheel chair...</p><p><a href="https://evop.blogspot.com/2013/02/lean-thinking-aids-innovation-even-if.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">evop.blogspot.com/2013/02/lean</span><span class="invisible">-thinking-aids-innovation-even-if.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/long_term_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>long_term_thinking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Innovation</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>Long History of Lean Thinking in Government</p><p>"It is good news that a government organization is adopting lean thinking ideas, but this kind of thing has been going on for decades. My father wrote a short section in Dr. Deming's Out of the Crisis on applying these ideas in the City of Madison (early 1980's). I was involved in the Public Sector Network (federal, state and local gov in 1990's)..."</p><p><a href="https://evop.blogspot.com/2013/01/long-history-of-lean-thinking-in.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">evop.blogspot.com/2013/01/long</span><span class="invisible">-history-of-lean-thinking-in.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/public_administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>public_administration</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>Customer Focus is Central to Lean Thinking </p><p><a href="https://evop.blogspot.com/2012/04/customer-focus-is-central-to-lean.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">evop.blogspot.com/2012/04/cust</span><span class="invisible">omer-focus-is-central-to-lean.html</span></a></p><p>...Lean is also very concerned with customer value. From that perspective usability is directly relevant and fits perfectly in the lean context. Lean focused on the ideas of usability for customers in the world of physical products. Usability of software fits with this perfectly...</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/usability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>usability</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/customer_focus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>customer_focus</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>Flexible Multi-Model Assembly Line at Toyota </p><p><a href="https://www.allaboutlean.com/toyota-flexible-multi-model-assembly-line/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">allaboutlean.com/toyota-flexib</span><span class="invisible">le-multi-model-assembly-line/</span></a></p><p>from the All About Lean blog by Christoph Roser. It is an excellent blog to add to your RSS imo.</p><p>"...Such a flexibility gives Toyota the ability to produce different models in almost any sequence. These lines were already common at Toyota around 1990..."</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Toyota" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Toyota</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Toyota_Production_System" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Toyota_Production_System</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>"Lean people are always technology skeptics. They’re not Luddites, mind you, they’re just technology skeptics. They spend their time on creating a process that requires as little information as possible..."</p><p>James Womack</p><p><a href="https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/09/25/the-lion-of-lean/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">management.curiouscatblog.net/</span><span class="invisible">2005/09/25/the-lion-of-lean/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>Japan Airlines using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Toyota_Production_System" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Toyota_Production_System</span></a> Principles</p><p><a href="https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/08/23/japan-airlines-using-toyota-production-system-principles/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">management.curiouscatblog.net/</span><span class="invisible">2005/08/23/japan-airlines-using-toyota-production-system-principles/</span></a></p><p>"The team carried out their project by encouraging personnel to take on challenges. The team discovered that staff needed to learn that making a mistake while acting proactively was not a problem. The problem lay in not attempting to do anything at all."</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/continual_improvement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>continual_improvement</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>One great thing about some lean concepts is they are not complicated to understand. It doesn’t take weeks of training to understand what to do. The hardest part is deciding to take the time to apply lean concepts...</p><p><a href="https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/09/02/visually-lean/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">management.curiouscatblog.net/</span><span class="invisible">2005/09/02/visually-lean/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean</span></a></p>
John Hunter<p>Some try to implement lean ideas without properly setting the stage by instituting policy’s such as Virginia Mason’s no layoff policy. Lean ideas will not work, as they should, without changes to the way the organization makes decisions. Failing to understand this factor is one reason some organizations are frustrated with the results they experience when trying to apply <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lean_thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lean_thinking</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/08/17/going-lean-in-health-care/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">management.curiouscatblog.net/</span><span class="invisible">2005/08/17/going-lean-in-health-care/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/organization_as_a_system" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>organization_as_a_system</span></a></p>
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