Amazon-owned shoe retailer that’s part of the Zappos family, Holocracy, is the largest and most famous business to embrace the philosophy that replaces the traditional top-down hierarchy with an autonomous alternative. But the transition over the last year and a half has by not been all smooth sailing. In fact, this philosophy has prompted more than 200 Holocracy employees…
Lean Thinking Fundamentals: The Building Block for a Lean Management System It is vitally important for lean people to know nothing when it comes to working towards improvement. This sounds like a crazy idea, and it is a 100% turnaround from traditional management thinking. This article discusses the fundamentals of Lean Thinking, a building block…
CONTENT PARTNER CONTRIBUTION As seen in the Jun-2015 edition of the Lean Management Journal Continuous Improvement (CI) is a well-established concept within organisations. Many have developed elaborate CI strategies and transformation programmes. However, in our opinion, there is a fundamental problem that advocates of CI need to address. How successful have we been as a…
The Editors of the Operational Excellence Society are usually not big fans of “Lists” – we find that they are usually very elementary. But we find an exception in this article by Gary Neilson, Jaime Estupinan and Bhusha Sethi as published on the Industry Week website (June 23, 2015). The article speaks about the basic…
What is Moore’s law, you ask? Well, Moore’s law states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. What is the relation between Moore’s law and the cost of a chip? Well, the Economist contends that even after Moore’s law ends, chip costs could still halve every few years. That crucial features…
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APRIL 09, 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War – just a month after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln. Needless to say, Lincoln became one of America’s most revered presidents and his best-known speech is, of course, the Gettysburg Address. This speech is often studied for means of rhetorically claiming its…
