PLANET LEAN

A recent scientific research covering 38 logistics flows belonging to three different companies revealed that 40% of logistics workflows are...

The word “converge” conjures up the typical definitions you would find in Merriam-Webster: 1) to tend or move toward one point or one another;...

Learning is a topic in its own right. Peter Senge’s seminal book The Fifth Discipline argued the need for the learning organisation. At the Lean...

After years spent studying and applying Lean Thinking, I have started to wonder why so many transformations start off with good results but then...

It was during my time with the Halfway Group that our coach Terry O’ Donoghue first explained to me what yokoten is. This Japanese term refers...

After years studying lean transformations around the world, we have observed time and again how the adoption of the lean learning system (the...

As we support organizations on their lean journeys, we often see how, in response to a gap in a Key Performance Indicator (KPI), people tend to...

CASE STUDY – This Norwegian firm learned that allowing every person and area to move up their own lean learning curve can steer the business...

I joined Toyota in 1970 after graduating from the University of Tokyo with a bachelor of law degree, but I was in no way destined to work for...

People often ask me for tips on how to create standard work for leaders and what I always tell them is to start from the gemba (yes, it is the...