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Book Review – Thinking, Fast and Slow

John Bicheno reviews Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, Allen Lane, 2011.

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Walk the gemba walk

Joseph Paris, founder of the Operational Excellence Society and the newest addition to the editorial board of LMJ, explains what going to the gemba means.

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The Fifth Column

This column aims at the controversial.

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Let employees drive innovation

The asking for and cultivation of employee ideas is a vast, untapped resource in most organisations.

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Putting the fizz into continuous improvement

Robin Howlett, continuous improvement manager, GB Operations at Britvic Soft Drinks, provides the example of a high speed automated FMCG environment to analyse how leader standard work can support the implementation of a continuous improvement programme.

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Process focus: higher education

A LEAN EDUCATION

Koot Pieterse, professor of operations management at the Business School of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, looks at the challenges and opportunities of applying lean in the tertiary education sector in South Africa.

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What the operator sees

What do operators experience in a workplace driven by continuous improvement?

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Left to right or right to left?

LMJ editorial board member Wendy Wilson, from Warwick Manufacturing Group, reflects on the article on the Toyota Sales Logistics system appeared in the last issue of the journal.