The Seven Wastes When Womack and Jones wrote The Machine That Changed the World they coined the term Lean and identified the seven wastes: Transport Intellect Motion Waiting Over Production Over Processing Defects Stock The observant among you will notice that is eight wastes not seven. Somewhere along the line somebody thought to add Intellect. On that […]
What Do You Believe?
Weltanschauung An interesting word. It ranks alongside bier and keller in my grasp of the German language noun, German (plural Weltanschauungen /ˈvɛltˌanʃaʊ(ə)n/) A comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it A perception of the world especially from a specific standpoint A particular philosophy or view of life; the world view of an individual […]
The Antimatter Principle
A metaphor Antimatter is by far the most valuable substance, by weight, known to Man (around $25 billion per gram). It’s incredibly rare, amazingly expensive and difficult to produce, and yet is by far the most powerful energy source we presently know of. It’s also the very epitome of alienness. Seems like a good metaphor […]
Issues, Incidents and Risk Events
Boring meetings Issues, incidents, risk events, screw ups, call them what you will, we all have them. Somewhere in your organisation somebody is logging them, categorising them and recording them. That somebody also has a target to reduce them. And every month they hold a meeting to discuss how they are doing. And — be honest — […]
Corporate Cancer
Fear and anxiety We have all heard of a “culture of fear”, but does fear really exist in our organisations? Fear Fear is a physical response danger, a reaction to an immediate issue that threatens your safety and security. It is fear that overcomes you when you are walking home late at night, all by yourself […]
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