Lean and Agile: The Catch
I hear this lament from new practitioners to seasoned veterans: Why isn’t our (insert school of workflow management here) transformation working?
I hear this lament from new practitioners to seasoned veterans: Why isn’t our (insert school of workflow management here) transformation working?
Setting the process aim is a key element in the short production runs that characterize the lean production of multiple products.
The Philippine Department of Transportation got into a bit of a fix recently for publicly thanking the coronavirus.
(Disaster Avoidance Experts: Columbus, OH) --The quality of our response to COVID-19 is fundamentally broken – and that doesn’t apply only to governments, but also to businesses, nonprofits, and individuals and their households.
Around the world, local agencies and institutions have scrambled to find personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect their essential employees from Covid-19.
‘Can you help me source PPEs from China?” asks a caller on the phone.
It’s easy to assume that something as simple as a mask wouldn’t pose much of a risk. Essentially, it’s just a covering that goes over your nose and mouth.
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF), the association of conformity assessment accreditation bodies worldwide, held an emergency meeting after confirming what appears to be an outbreak in the use of fake ISO 13485 certificates.
If there’s one thing the global business community is learning from the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s the outright imperative for companies to be agile “from top to bottom.” This lesson continues to ebb, flow, and unfold daily, wreaking having on bottom lines in every corn
When most people think of lean processes, they believe the goal is to optimize things in a step-by-step approach. The result that companies using lean methods can look forward to is incremental improvements brought about by the elimination of waste.
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