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

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.

SCGM’s CEO, Sandra Cadjenovic, gives LMJ an account of what the company has accomplished on the field in the last month.

This column aims at the controversial.

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

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.

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.

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

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.