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Lean Strategy: The Role of Ideal State Thinking

05.27.2011

In the second Friday Strategy session on Lean Strategy, I explore how we can incorporate and apply lean thinking, specifically the use of the ideal state, in building or developing your business strategy. Building the aspirational models of the ideal state for the business helps provide some direction and focus for the daily execution and [...]

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In the pursuit of perfection

02.08.2011

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” These words by Vince Lombardi encompass a great deal of the lean mindset. Mark Graban at LeanBlog.org recently wrote about this quote, and so I was reminded of an article I wrote almost 10 years ago. The article was just a two-page [...]

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Organizational Design and the Role of HR in Lean

02.19.2010

This originally appeared on the Lean Career Compass blog. Lean is a human system. And human resources deals with humans, right? So HR should have a pretty active role in lean. In most cases, I see them sitting on the sidelines. This is sad. It’s not that they don’t want to get involved, they don’t [...]

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H x V x F > R

01.15.2010

This is the first video in our Cultural Transformation series. When trying to lead cultural transformation in any organization, whether tied to lean or not, there is no greater lever than the words, actions, and behaviors of the leader. In this video, we describe 3 key elements that you must be generating. H is for [...]

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