Tag: Kaizen
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Key Success Factors to transform your SME with Lean principles
The five pillars of Lean to apply in your business The answer to the question posed by our research, “Is it possible to steer a company’s strategy in times of crisis through Lean management ?” starts with a simple premise: the company faces problems and wants to solve them. Embracing Lean and Management Control, we…
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Empowering Small Enterprises with Lean Manufacturing: Achieving Autonomy, Innovation, and Competitiveness
Unlocking autonomy through Lean manufacturing Lean Manufacturing isn’t just about efficiency; it’s about finding the best way to do things. It’s like a secret recipe that saves money, improves quality, and makes customers really happy. That means spending less, making fewer mistakes, and winning people over. Lean Manufacturing, often linked to big industries, has something…
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PDCA: A simple and effective way to refine your strategy and adapt to change
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends When you run a company, you face many challenges and uncertainties, especially in times of crisis. You may have to deal with competitors, customers, investors, regulators, employees, and other stakeholders who have different expectations and demands. You may have to make decisions…
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Value Stream Mapping: Why it should be your first step to define your strategy
VSM : The key to aligning your processes and goals Value stream mapping is a powerful technique to visualize the flow of work and identify the sources of waste and inefficiency in any process. By designing value stream maps, you can align your leadership and teams around a common vision of how to deliver value…
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How to make your company and team learn better
The secrets of building a learning organization Imagine a company that can constantly improve itself by learning from its own experience and feedback. Kaizen, or continuous improvement, is the key to a learning company. This vision can be achieved by any company, no matter how far along they are in adopting Lean, a management philosophy…
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The keys to organizational learning and team engagement
Creating a culture of Kaizen and Learning In today’s complex and competitive world, organizations need to constantly improve their processes and performance to survive and thrive. One of the approaches that has been widely adopted by many organizations is lean management, which is based on the principles and practices of the Toyota Production System. Lean…
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How to become a learning company with continuous improvement
Kaizen : A mindset for learning and adapting in a changing world Lean management in times of crisis means learning to adapt constantly, learning to learn, integrating organizational learning as a vector of performance. By changing the behavior and culture of individuals towards self-learning, a company that directs its strategy towards the continuous improvement of…
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Lean and Management. How to engage employees in continuous improvement ?
The paradox of Lean is that it challenges human nature People tend to cling to their routines, habits, and work methods, especially if they have devised or built them themselves. They also seek to find meaning and motivation in their work, as long as it excites them and aligns with their values. But most people…
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Lean management: A strategic approach to governance
The considerable success known by Lean and its expansion around the world is due to the fact that it encompasses all processes as a strategic issue for the company. A single value-creating system instead of trying to silo the creation of value within the services and put them in competition against each other through a…
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Introduction to crisis strategic transformation
Leaders have to deal with strategic management in times of crisis. Current company strategies emphasize the use of continuous improvement, lean management, as a key success factor. They seek to mitigate the threats associated with the crisis. They are also looking for a relevant management control tool to measure the impact of continuous improvement actions.…
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