Frode Gjendem, Global Lead for Operations Analytics at Accenture, discusses analytics infused-kaizens in process manufacturing.
In this first article, Janet, a project support officer with the transformation team, introduces the London council at the start of its lean journey that LMJ will be following from now on, and her experience of learning about and implementing lean techniques.
THE FIFTH COLUMN
Leaders and decisions – Two stories
The proposal for the new initiative had been developed by a sub-set within Marketing.
John Bicheno reviews The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership by Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis, McGraw Hill, 2012
Jeffrey Liker has established himself as the author on the Toyota system.
SCGM’s CEO, Sandra Cadjenovic, gives LMJ an account of the progress the company has made in its lean programme over the last month, starting with some serious tiding up of the machines.
The eyes of the world may have been on London this summer, but in the meantime Lake Region Medical won a prize of its own, becoming the first Irish company to be awarded a Shingo Accredition Bronze Medallion.
Editorial board member Jacob Austad warns against the risk of standardising for the sake of using standards.
In this review, editorial board member Peter Watkins, of GKN, pulls out some of the key learning’s from Robin Howlett’s article on leadership standard work.
Mark Adams, Vice President of purchasing at Toyota Europe, discusses the car maker’s supply chain in the UK and Europe and the company’s approach to leadership and risk assessment.