Pitch interval (I_p) can be thought of in two ways: as a unit of time representing the (usually) smallest common pitch shared among a range of products, services, or transactions that are being produced, conveyed, performed, or executed by a given

The title of this article is a search term that recently hit The Lean Thinker site. It’s an interesting question—and interesting that it gets asked.

Have you encountered the following situation? A company has no time for quality, and therefore has more and more business problems. So they spend even more time fire-fighting, and as a result has even less time for quality, and so on.