Tag: Lean management
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How the Toyota Way can help your Business
Learning the Toyota Way What is the notion of time and what is “waiting” when you’re a leader ? At Toyota, knowing how to maintain a lifelong learning attitude is essential to having effective leadership and creating a Lean organization. And at Toyota, to manage well, you have to know how to observe. Companies that…
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Lean and Performance: An overview
Improving performance thanks to Lean. Definition of Lean. Definition written by Womack and D. Jones “The machine that changed the world”. “Customer engagement and their desire to promote the service(s) they have purchased stems from the engagement of the company’s employees. Employee engagement starts from a simple premise: every employee is rich in know-how, feelings…
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Lean strategies for SMEs
How SMEs can boost their agility and innovation with Lean strategies Agility is not a goal in itself, but a result of continuous improvement. Innovation is not a random event, but a disciplined process. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that face fierce competition and limited resources, these two principles are essential for survival and…
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Agile strategy. Be flexible to embrace uncertainty and complexity.
With accelerated globalization and the hyper-connectivity of the economy, businesses, especially SMEs, now have to contend with global competition and increasing technological complexity. Being creative, innovative while being able to simplify their processes allows the most agile companies to manage their strategies more effectively and to export better, further and faster. According to Séverin Legras…
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Crises, a catalyst for change and innovation.
Schumpeter’s creative destruction theory. Beyond the need to adapt the management of organizations to the threats of crises, Joseph Schumpeter showed us that these periods of transformation are above all conducive to innovation. Toyota’s organizational model, itself born at the end of the Second World War in a devastated Japan, is one of the most…
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Strategy and crisis
According to the Greek etymology, “strategia” means “command” with an evolution of meaning towards “the art of the strategist”, political and military art at this time and for many centuries. In economics, strategy is a set of choices of objectives and means that guide the medium and long term activities of an organization or 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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Lean office: maximizing the performance of export processes
The lean office approach aims to streamline your processes and reduce waste by identifying and eliminating unnecessary steps and activities. We goes over the essential elements to know to make your leadership and business more efficient. “Lean is a way of thinking, not a list of things to do.” Shigeo Shingo In the office Lean…
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How to succeed in an internal process change ?
Change Management. Overcome reticence Do you need to change your process, products, brand image, software, tools, machines ?Are you afraid of the reaction of your teams, distributors, users ?We campaign for a universal approach, declinable in each country and culture, simple and pragmatic and using free tools… “Change brings opportunity.” Nido Qubein You shall initiate…
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How a 16th Century Samurai forged the soul of modern Japan
Myamoto Musashi, born in 1584, is Japan’s most famous samurai.Musashi was a Ronin (Samurai without a master) who traveled around Japan to face the most famous Masters. He was never defeated in more than 70 fights to the death. He annihilated the Yoshiyoka school alone against 60 fighters by developing his two-sword technique. At the…
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