Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
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Tag Archives: Change Management
The High Cost of Poor Accounting
Traditional cost accounting measures sub-optimize and work against most systemic or process approaches (Lean). Activity Based Costing (ABC) has the potential to generate even more distorted results (chapter 4, “The High Cost of Poor Accounting”). Activity Based Costing is just … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts on Lean
Tagged activity based costing, Adam Zak, automation, Change Management, competitive manufacturing, Excellence, lean accounting, management team, optimize, simple accounting, transformation, voice of the customer
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Making Everyone Whole – from Jim Womack, Lean Enterprise Institute
Jim Womack’s newsletter this month, posted here, very clearly explores one of the underlying reasons that Lean or Operational Excellence initiatives are often difficult to sustain (and sometimes even get off the ground). Every affected stakeholder -whether the executive leadership team recognize it … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Zak
Tagged Change Management, executive leadership team, Hippocratic, hippocratic corpus, improvement, improvement effort, jim womack, Leadership, Lean, Lean Beyond Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, lean enterprise institute, Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, optimality, Pareto, Respect for People, stakeholder, Sustainability, Sustainable Enterprise
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GM April Fools’…oh wait, this is reality
I’ve long been an advocate of Jim Womack’s Lean Transformation principle that “you’ve got to change the people, or you’ve got to change the people” in order to achieve and sustain dramatic improvment in your business. And, as a corporate Executive … Continue reading
Posted in Adam Zak
Tagged Business, Change Management, Corporate Culture, Executive, Executive Search, Lean, Mark Graban, Talent
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