It’s that time of year when I need to buy my planner refill for next year, for the last couple of years I’ve been using Franklin Covey to help organize my work-flow. Generally I like…
Browsing Category Work
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Experimentation is a significant part of TPS and is one of the ways in which Toyota achieves the rather impressive targets it sets for itself. Organizations are encourage to test, learn from the results and…
Goal setting at Toyota
It’s buried deep in the company DNA and why they strive to be better tomorrow.
Checklists…
Going to a checklist allows you to focus on priorites and work down a clearly defines list.
Is building in-house the answer?
The out sourcing model has been comprehensively explored over the last few decades. It started with clothing and low margin consumer items, and with the 787 program it’s been taken to it’s logical conclusion. Where…
Thoughts on Value Added
Ideally you’d like to eliminate PVA, but that’s typically impossible for a true PVA step. Then you are required to ensure the cost of these steps is reduced as far as possible.