Simple Excellence: Organizing & Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
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Tag Archives: Lean Manufacturing
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
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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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Director, Product Quality – High Tech Consumer Electronics
Director, Product Quality in high-tech consumer electronics, for the creator of one of the hottest consumer electronic devices of the century (yes, this one), based in Silicon Valley, California Why You Want this Position You crave the excitement of working with the visionary team which … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, California, China, christmas shopping, Cisco, Consumer electronics, Cupertino, customer satisfaction, director product, electronic product, exceeding customer expectations, financial performance, Garmin, HTC, Lean Manufacturing, Magellan, meaningful work, Nintendo, Nokia, Nook, open communication, product solutions, professional expectations, Quality, quality metrics, Samsung, shenzhen china, Silicon Valley, silicon valley california, Six Sigma, Sony, TomTom, Toyota Production System, world class quality
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Values (Beliefs, Passions…) Not Synonymous with Business Model
Kevin Meyer, in his “Evolving Excellence” blog post today is very much on target concerning the declining importance and influence of traditional media. “Two different articles both appearing yesterday and discussing obliquely-similar industries got me to wondering about business models and commitment … Continue reading
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Tagged Excellence, Honda, Kevin Meyer, lean management, Lean Manufacturing, management, Toyota
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