October 17, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at October 17, 2018
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How Lean Processes Can Benefit Your Firm’s Cash Flow Picture a traditional manufacturing process. What do you see? Work started well before it’s needed? Items being […]
October 1, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at October 1, 2018
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In the past software development followed the waterfall approach—trying to understand the customer’s new needs and then working on the software development for months, releasing the […]
September 8, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at September 8, 2018
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Underlying the operations of every company is its value delivery system. It is the central processing unit of the entire company. For example, what does it […]
July 24, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at July 24, 2018
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Most lean office initiatives are concerned exclusively with making value stream maps and creating a more efficient business process. But that’s only part of the solution […]
July 10, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at July 10, 2018
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I have spent quite a bit of time helping small manufacturing companies improve their processes during the past three years. Many of these companies are struggling […]
June 10, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at June 10, 2018
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The growth strategy for delivering bottom line results through lean goes something like this: lean improvements create production capacity without adding cost other than direct materials, […]
May 29, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at May 29, 2018
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The companies that over a period of years that successfully implement lean start by overcoming resistance: They set new goals, discard old routines, and celebrate new […]
May 9, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at May 9, 2018
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Recently I met with a client, whose company was making their third attempt to move the needle on their Lean journey. Despite all the previous attempts […]
April 9, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at April 9, 2018
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Unconvinced that Lean can be applied to administrative operations. Here are how some of our clients applied lean in the office to reduce lead time. […]
March 27, 2018
Published by Willie Carter at March 27, 2018
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Because I came out of the chemical processing industry (adhesives and coatings) I sometimes get calls from some of my old colleagues asking about applying lean […]
