Lean Philosophy

Gemba Walk: Mangement by Walking Around (MBWA)

Saturday, August 7, 2010
By Vivek Naik

What is a Gemba Walk? Gemba walk , in simple words is a form of “Management by Walking Around” (MBWA).  This is a very powerful tool as it is based on the fundamental principles of lean known as the ” 3G’s of lean ” as listed below. Gemba walk provides a first-hand unpolluted information... »

How do we Learn?- The process and tools of Learning

Sunday, July 25, 2010
By Vivek Naik

Actually a post “Learning to Learn” by Evan Durant inspired me to write this. This topic has always intrigued me and have read my share blogs posts, books to satisfy my curiosity. I would like to share my experiences and experiments on this process and learn what others have done. I will briefly explain... »

Game Mechanics:An effective way to engage your people

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
By Vivek Naik

Few months back I had an opportunity to attend one our customers “Training and Supplier trade show”. The event is held annually so that all the buyers and managers get to meet all the suppliers and see their offering and collaborate to find better solutions.  They must have realised long time ago, for a... »

Aligning Business – Processes – People

Thursday, February 18, 2010
By Vivek Naik
Aligning Business – Processes – People

This is a scene at most of the businesses where the Business goals very rarely affect the day to day processes that run the organisation or any changes in the process realign the goals to new scenario.  People are usually left on their own to figure their way out of this situation. Here Business... »

Socratic Method

Sunday, January 3, 2010
By Vivek Naik

so-called wise men thought themselves wise and yet were not, he himself knew he was not wise at all which, paradoxically, made him the wiser one since he was the only person aware of his own ignorance…. -about Socrates on Wikipedia Paradoxes of Socrates have always intrigued me. Though I have not not read... »

Distrust – The unknown waste!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
By Vivek Naik

Having distrustful , vendors, customers and most important people within our organisation is one of the biggest waste that we don’t account for. How is distrust wasteful? Imagine a person on your team whom you don’t trust to keep certain business secrets. Now you will always have to work extra to make sure that... »

The Long Tail of Problem Solving

Sunday, November 22, 2009
By Vivek Naik
The Long Tail of Problem Solving

As you may have noticed there are few unique types of problems which have very large impact (Financially or in some intangible way). As we get to the process level on the shop-floor we come across hundreds, if not thousands of low impact problems. If we plot all these problems we see something which... »

Lean Management – Driving force of Lean Transformation

Sunday, November 15, 2009
By Vivek Naik

How many times have you sucessfully implemented change using lean tools only to realize, after few weeks or months, that the manager and other people  have either reverted back to the old methods or have found ways to circumvent the newly established methods. We learned the hard way that lean transformation cannot be supported... »

Leader Standard work – A bite a day keeps audit away!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
By Vivek Naik

I was reading “Audit Vs. leader Standard Work” by Mark Rosenthal and I suddenly realized what potential we have created at our work place. Over the course of the year we have grown very fond of the audits. Especially for 5S and we are developing audits  for maintaining other lean management systems put in... »

5S- The Foundation of Lean Manufacturing

Sunday, October 25, 2009
By Vivek Naik

5S is often misunderstood as just a mere housekeeping tool. Impact of having a successful 5S system is more profound than just keeping the place clean. 5S is the starting point of any lean transformation and forms a catalyst for culture of change. Due to the very visible results it makes the process of... »

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