Finding Lean in Good Change

Finding Lean in Good Change

CONTENT PARTNER CONTRIBUTIONAs seen in the Jun-2015 edition of theLean Management Journal In the manufacturing sector, and for that matter, in many large organisations across a variety of industries, kaizen is a well-respected approach to improvement. The methodology, whose moniker literally means good change in Japanese, has its origins after World War II. However, based…

Want to Make a Process Improvement Plan Stick? Focus on the People.

So many process improvement plans are dead on arrival. It’s almost like online dating; companies spend millions developing the perfect picture and profile, and yet when the plan meets the actual process, both sides are disappointed. What happens? People happen. Processes don’t change by themselves; the people at every step in the process need to…