Comments on: Standards Protect the Team Members http://theleanthinker.com/2007/08/28/standards-protect-the-team-members/ Thoughts and insights from the shop floor. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:30:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Greg Burnworth http://theleanthinker.com/2007/08/28/standards-protect-the-team-members/comment-page-1/#comment-12187 Greg Burnworth Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:22:14 +0000 http://theleanthinker.com/2007/08/28/standards-protect-the-team-members/#comment-12187 Great post. As a lean consultant, I often find resistance in functional areas to standard work. Often, they imply the understand it, or they have it, but in the gemba, the reality is just the opposite. It's hard for people to see the value in standard work until they have gone through it. I like the post regarding protecting the team members. It's usually hard enough to get functional area managers to see that there process is out of control and that firefighting and heroics is a telltale sign of this. Thanks for the tip!! Great post. As a lean consultant, I often find resistance in functional areas to standard work. Often, they imply the understand it, or they have it, but in the gemba, the reality is just the opposite. It’s hard for people to see the value in standard work until they have gone through it. I like the post regarding protecting the team members.

It’s usually hard enough to get functional area managers to see that there process is out of control and that firefighting and heroics is a telltale sign of this.

Thanks for the tip!!

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