1. Simply Brilliant Solution
2. Brilliantly Simple solution

Which one would you pick? and Why? -
Well, that tells a lot about how most LEAN concepts have evolved.

My mother-in-law’s kitchen-pantry. Small bottles in front of the large ones. She invites over 100 guests every month and purchases every item with a coupon or sale due to her ways of rotating the Menu. Her focus on small incremental changes, clean transparent flow and removal of “muda” is deeply etched in every corner of her kitchen.

Daily focus, cleaning and understanding the value of each step (or lack that of) is as old as civilization. Her message: Be where you are.

How does such a wague thing apply to high tech factories and crude transaction processes?

Let’s think.