As I mentioned
a long time ago, Art Smalley’s web site,
http://artoflean.com, is an excellent resource for learning. His thinking is cutting edge - he has kept up in the field.
I am mentioning it here because he has a couple of really good resources available.
Learning From Toyota is a presentation that challenges some of [...]
Jim Collins book “
Good to Great” has been a best selling business book for several years. But I am not so sure everyone knows about
Jim Collins web site. It as on-line mini-lectures, and much more material that reinforces the concepts outlined in the book.
As for how the concepts in the book relate to “lean [...]
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
In
Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath have addressed head-on one of the biggest problems with implementing change in people’s thinking and behavior — crafting the concept in a way that makes it compelling.. “sticky” in their words.
The book is an extension of the concept described in [...]
Today I came across an article called
Lean Dilemma:Choose System Principles or Management Accounting Controls, Not Both by H. Thomas Johnson.
It is, or it should be a thought-provoking read, especially for a CEO or other senior manager.
The author also wrote “Profit Beyond Measure” which I have not read, but based on this article, [...]
Art Smalley has a fantastic web site called
Art of Lean.
I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for “where to begin.”
Pay special attention to the e-learning piece on “Basic Stability.” This is where the money is, folks. Most of the waste (probably almost all of the waste) in your operation today is the [...]
Robert Johnston, now at the University of Melbourne, did his PhD work at Monash University. His dissertation, “
The Problem With Planning” presents a thought provoking thesis.
- Early robotics and computational intelligence models were built on a model which research at MIT debunked as unworkable in the 1980’s.
- The MRP algorithm uses the same model.
- Therefore, [...]
The Essence of Just-In-Time
This is a working paper by Steven Spear of Harvard Business School. Spear’s PhD work was summarized in a landmark and well-circulated Harvard Business Review article titled “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System.” I will leave it to the reader’s Google savvy to turn up the DNA article for yourself.
This [...]
TOYOTA: Company > Vision/Phillosophy
Where better to learn about the Toyota Production System than Toyota? Their web site has always been a good source of basic learning. And like all things TPS, it is improved on a regular basis.
SME: The Essence of Jidoka
This link is to an article I wrote for the SME online “Lean Directions” site back in 2002. I am including it on this site for the sake of completeness. I noticed that the Wikipedia article on the same subject is largely plagiarized from this, which I simply consider flattery.