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🚀 The Lean Path: From Waste to Value 🛠️ ➡️ Follow Gemba Concepts For Regular Content Updates! The Lean journey isn’t a destination — it’s a mindset. A culture. A commitment. Here’s what walking The Lean Path looks like: 🔍 Identify Waste – See the 8 wastes hiding in plain sight. 📊 Measure What Matters – Use data, not assumptions. ⚙️ Standardize – Build consistency to fuel improvement. 💡 Empower Teams – Those closest to the work often know best. 🔁 Kaizen Culture – Small steps, continuous progress. 📦 Flow & Pull – Produce only what’s needed, when it’s needed. 🎯 Customer Focus – Every action must add value to the customer. 🏆 Sustain & Share – Improvements must last, and lessons must spread. Walking the Lean Path transforms not only your processes but your people, your products, and your purpose. 🌱 #LeanThinking #ContinuousImprovement #Kaizen #LeanManufacturing #OperationalExcellence #LeanPath #ProcessImprovement

Another week, another round of insights from our LinkedIn community. Theme for this week: Lean & Leading Change _____ Robert Amsler poses some brutally honest questions to Lean professionals: are we solving problems of consequence or just making the machinery of extraction run more smoothly? https://lnkd.in/g2c826_E Sean Smyth shares a lived best practice on how to induct a Continuous Improvement professional into a process. https://lnkd.in/gSTTytED Melinda Manente reflects on process mapping and the moment when our view of the process changes. https://lnkd.in/gqNP7-_s Daniel Lock talks about why too many change initiatives collapse and how to sustain change. https://lnkd.in/gyp2bRp2 Harrick Snow shares his simple model of change leadership in this first of a series about the overlapping circles of change. https://lnkd.in/gSQavsuW __ Which insight shifted your thinking most this week? #ChangeManagement #ContinuousImprovement #Lean #Transformation #ProblemSolving

Introducing the 12 Core Principles to Ensure Reliable Results. 🧰 Principle #12: Cultural habits are shaped by a supportive behavior ecosystem. ⚙️ People, processes, and systems must work together to reinforce Vital Behaviors until they become second nature. Dr. Julie M Smith Lori H. Diener-Ludwig #VitalBehavior #VitalBehaviors #Lean

The Lean thinking “doing more with less” is one of the most quoted and most misunderstood. Too often, it gets wrongly translated into “stretch people thinner” or “cut resources to the bone.” That’s not Lean. The real essence is about: 1. Eliminating waste 2. Optimizing processes 3. Delivering more value with the same effort One of my favorite Dilbert strips captures this gap perfectly - how organizations sometimes misapply Lean in ways that miss the whole point. Lean isn’t about doing more work with fewer people. It’s about doing better work with smarter systems. #Dilbert #doingmorewithefficientprocess #eliminatewaste #lean

Most people treat continuous improvement like a project. Get through the checklist. Hold the kaizen event. Then move on. But real continuous improvement isn’t an event. It’s a mindset. It asks daily: What’s working? What’s not? What’s possible? When you reframe improvement as culture… You don’t just fix what’s broken. You build resilience into every shift. #ContinuousImprovement #WarehouseExcellence #LeadershipInAction #LeadingInMotion #SupplyChain

CI # 323 - 🔧 Why Solving Problems Isn’t Enough in Lean 🔍 In many organizations, teams get stuck firefighting, solving one issue after another. But Lean Thinking teaches us to go deeper. ✅ Don’t just fix the problem. 🔎 Find the root cause. 📉 Eliminate the waste. 📈 Build a system that prevents recurrence. I’ve seen how small, consistent improvements lead to massive long-term gains. It’s not about working harder it’s about working smarter. Let’s not just survive the day. Let’s design a better tomorrow. 🌱 💬 Have you implemented a Lean solution that made a big impact? #LeanConsulting #ContinuousImprovement #Kaizen #RootCauseAnalysis #LeanThinking #Productivity #OperationalExcellence #WCM #engineerkhurram

Lean Transformation: Why Excitement Fades Lean transformations often start with a burst of energy colorful posters on walls, shiny visual boards, and enthusiastic 5S campaigns. Everyone's talking about improvement, change is in the air. But here's what happens next 👉 The excitement fades. Fast. Why? Because Lean didn't land where it matters most the shop floor. 🎯 The Real Problem -Lean becomes decoration instead of transformation -Tools get implemented without connecting to strategy -Employees see it as "another initiative" rather than a better way to work 🔑 What Actually Works Lean only succeeds when it becomes woven into the fabric of daily work embedded in routines, habits, and every decision employees make. 👉 The Hard Truth Without connecting Lean principles to both organizational strategy AND people's everyday reality, you'll start the journey but never reach your destination. 👉 Key Takeaway Sustainable Lean transformation isn't about what you put on the walls it's about what you build into your culture.

🔑 We can’t improve what we can’t repeat—and we can’t repeat what isn’t clear. Masaki Imai said it best: “It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized.” Standardization isn’t about limiting creativity—it’s about creating the foundation for it. ✔️ It gives us a clear “before” picture. ✔️ It reveals patterns and problems. ✔️ It provides a stable baseline for measuring real impact. Without it, improvement efforts are just guesswork. With it, we can build confidence, measure change, and make improvements that last. ✨ Standard work isn’t the end of improvement—it’s the beginning of every Kaizen story.

When building an #OperationalExcellence Culture, it's important to empower everybody.... So that's what we did last week when presenting our first KPIs. The exercise and instructions given were simple: ▪️ Here's the template ▪️ Let's discuss what you will be measuring initiatially according to your operation. ▪️ Make sure to have your KPIs definitions and formulas very well described so your audience can understand what you're presenting. ▪️ Surprise us!! The results were very productive presentations with very good measurements that provided inputs for the overall Balanced Scorecard creation. This is only one step of many within this journey. I'll keep you posted... 🟢 How easy or difficult it is to build your BSC from scratch? 🟢 What steps do you follow? Remember... Start by finding out what matters the most and make sure everybody undestand that... #Transformation | #ContinuousImprovement | #ChangeManagement | #Lean

Kaizen in Operations Management: Small Steps Toward Big Impact In the world of operations, excellence isn’t built overnight — it’s built through consistent, incremental improvements. That’s the heart of Kaizen. Kaizen, meaning “change for better”, focuses on continuous improvement by empowering every team member to identify and eliminate inefficiencies, no matter how small. When applied in operations management, Kaizen helps to: ✅ Streamline processes ✅ Reduce waste and downtime ✅ Improve quality and customer satisfaction ✅ Foster a proactive, engaged workforce It's not just a tool — it's a mindset. One small improvement, repeated daily, leads to major transformation over time. Let’s keep improving, one step at a time. #Kaizen #OperationsManagement #ContinuousImprovement #LeanThinking #Efficiency #ProcessImprovement #TeamExcellence