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The voice of the people

My old mentor once told me that you can have people do everything if you treat them well and explain why something needs to be done.

ERP

ERP: Enterprise-Wide Respect for People

Daryl Powell from Trondheim’s Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Pauline Found from Cardiff Business School discuss how ERP can support the respect for people principle. 

The ongoing debate on the relationship between lean and ERP stems from the early description of the Toyota Production System, when Sugimori et al.

IT

Making IT work

Cimlogic works with a variety of UK and Ireland manufacturers, integrating MES software solution TrakSYS as a platform to drive continuous improvement and lean manufacturing strategies.

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The most rewarding transformation

Kelly J Sullivan, Senior Project Manager at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, discusses how often we forget the contribution lean gives to improving people’s lives and looks back at a challenging and rewarding implementation he took part in at Chippewa River Industries. 

While working for Curt Manufacturing as an engineering and quality manager, I was tasked with reducing the company’s costs while maintaining quality of its products.

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Thinking people: a platform for change

What sets Toyota apart and makes it the model all lean practitioners look up to is its unwavering focus on people development, says Tony Dyer, Training Academy Manager at Toyota Material Handling UK, which manufactures and services forklift trucks.

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The last straw

Is it the system or is it the people?

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Pressing on with lean

Claire O’Brien, Marketing Executive at Ireland-based e-book distribution service ePubDirect, introduces this feature on the application of lean thinking in the publishing industry.

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Learning to lean

Before you can start using lean thinking to change your organisation, its principles must be studied and learned.

BYOD

Boosting BYOD

This new column analyses the contribution that technology can give to a lean implementation.