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Why is it so hard to get buy in to continuous improvement?

Continuous Improvement, leadership, Lean Manufacturing, TLS Theory of Constraints Lean Six Sigma / Mark Woeppel / business excellence, leadership, lean, six sigma, TLS / 3 minutes of reading

At the heart of continuous improvement is the matter of change. In order to improve the process, we must change it. However, not every change results in an improvement. We would not bother to make a change if it didn’t result in something positive, yet many changes we make result in little real improvement. Why is […]

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Does Value Stream Mapping Need a Makeover?

The main reason organizations don’t realize maximum output from their capacity is that planning and execution behavior is not aligned with the global purpose of the organization. There are two behaviors that account for this misalignment. They are: Over-production; Making more than the customer (or the next step) requires. Usually manifested as batching behaviors and Releasing