Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
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Tag Archives: Corporate Culture
Build Lean & Operational Excellence Foudation During Times of Stress
Continuously improving means just that. Nowhere is it written that when things aren’t so rosy it’s time to take a break from CI. If your corporate culture has any meaning at all, focusing on Operational Excellence is all the more … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Culture, economic downturn, economic times, growth, growth and profitability, jim womack, Leadership, Lean, Lean Enterprise, lean enterprise institute, Lean Leaders, lean management, lean principles, management culture, Ohno, Operational Excellence, Production, Productivity, Toyota Production System, transformation
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Avnet GETS IT (Lean)… IT’s about the People.
I’ve been following the fortunes of Avnet (NYSE:AVT) for quite a while now, watching them build Lean and Continuous Improvement into their corporate culture. How fitting then that Steve Church, Avnet’s top HR guy, should be elevated to the position of … Continue reading
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Tagged avnet, avt, Continuous Improvement, Corporate Culture, culture of excellence, fortune magazine, Operational Excellence, rick hamada, zak
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Happiness, the Nirvana of Employee Engagement
A critical principle underlying Lean (Toyota Production System and derivatives) is respect for the individual employee. How does this manifest itself? Well, the CEOs of at least a few Lean companies tell me that they measure the degree to which people in their organizations are … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Zak, core values, Corporate Culture, Employee Engagement, fortune magazine, general motors, Lean, tony hsieh, Toyota Production System
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