Are your metrics helping your organisation improve its performance?
While working on a client engagement, I proposed to a manager that we setup a…
lean10 May 2023
14 things I wish I knew when I started my Lean Journey
Wishing you a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2020! I thought it might be…
lean3 May 2023
Industry 4.0 or Lean 4.0?
Atlantis Foundries was able to achieve zero defects for three months in a row thanks…
lean2 May 2023
Correcting Errors in Our Thinking
Psychologists tell us that our brains use shortcuts and frameworks, called schemas, to make it…
lean1 May 2023
Relentless Leadership. In a Time of Crisis.
‘Relentless leadership’ was the theme for our Lean Summit Africa 2014. It was a theme…
lean28 February 2023
As we learn by doing
One of the things that I appreciate the most about my work is the high…
lean26 March 2021
A Call to Arms
The call to bare arms is now widespread. In Argentina. In Germany. In Indonesia. In…
lean29 January 2021
The Question of Employee Engagement
I had an interesting conversation with someone that got me thinking about management’s thinking around…
lean16 September 2020
If there is a plan, but most people don’t know about it, then is it a plan?
At the start of the Covid19 pandemic Lean Institute Africa offered an organisation pro-bono support…
lean14 September 2020
“We need more staff!”
They said they just needed more staff. They said their process was good – that…
lean21 July 2020
