Archive for July 2024

Everyone is familiar with Taiichi Ohno’s seven wastes in manufacturing processes. But let’s zoom out from the seven wastes that exist in one specific company to the seven wastes that exist in all of U.S. industry — or for whatever country you care to consider because the situation will be the same as that described…

Scientific thinking has become very popular within the Lean community since the publication of Toyota Kata in 2009. If something is popular in the business world, it often means that it is recognized as conceptually easy to grasp, easy to do, easy to talk about, or all three. When something becomes popular, it is likely…