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Part one of a seven-part series. Learn how the A3 process involves more than just problem solving, along with the other facets of the practice you must understand.
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Most people who know at least a little about lean are familiar with hoshin kanri (also known as strategy deployment) and A3 problem solving, but even those who know a lot about lean may not fully understand how these two lean practices should work together.
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Leaders must be system architects, taking on responsibility and ownership.
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Problems cannot be seen as “bad things.” They are unequivocal evidence that we are facing an opportunity to improve processes, eliminate waste, innovate and deliver more value
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Facing yet another year without guarantees, it will be necessary to strengthen as much as possible the methods and processes that help the company adapt and respond quickly to any difficulty
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In this second part of his series, Art Smalley shows us a five-second NBA clip, relating it to lean and showing how basketball coaching can teach us more about lean than we imagine.
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Art Smalley is back with a new series on problem solving. The first part shows Art explaining his lean background and the pitfalls of any “one-size-fits-all” approach to problem solving. This article presents the content of video 1 below.
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This article illustrates how Daily Management (DM) was applied in a distribution center (DC) to stabilize performance and accelerate day-to-day problem solving. Although every journey is unique, the practice of DM preserves fixed elements that sustain discipline, transparency and learning, while adapting to the reality of each operation.
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Theodo grew from two people to 700 employees by connecting agile with lean thinking — building a learning system based on visibility, problem solving and quality.
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NOTES FROM THE GEMBA – At GHU Paris (Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris), leadership combines strategy with gemba visits, problem solving using the 5C method and cross-functional learning to create a resilient, people-centered improvement culture in psychiatric care.
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Understand why inevitable economic, cultural and technological transformations will increasingly make logistics a strategic factor in any business, requiring the improvement of fundamental practices such as problem solving, waste elimination and lean leadership.
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A practice pioneered by Toyota in which the problem, the analysis, the corrective actions and the action plan are written on a single sheet of paper (A3 size), usually with graphs and figures. At Toyota, A3 reports…
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Part three of a seven-part series, “The real secret to success with the A3 process”. Learn how the A3 process goes beyond problem solving and the other facets of the practice you must understand. Read the previous articles: part one - It is as much a social process as a technical problem-solving process and part 2 - PDCA is actually CA-PDCA – and it is the CA that makes the PD work .
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Part two of a seven-part series, “The real secret to success with the A3 process”. Learn how the A3 process goes beyond problem solving and the other facets of the practice you must understand. Read part one, " It is as much a social process as a technical problem-solving process "
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