Five Phrases Lean Champions Should Never Say: And Questions to Ask Instead
Key Takeaways:
- We can unintentionally shut down conversations with phrases that express the difficulties of a lean transformation rather than respond to real questions people have about lean.
- We sometimes use these phrases when people ask us things we can’t answer.
- It’s better to respond by asking questions of our own that open up dialogue.
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LPDRC
Created:
October 21st, 2010
Updated:
October 21st, 2010
Integration Events: Pull Your Product Design Together
Key Takeaways:
- Integration Events pull work through product development and help teams identify integration problems early.
- Integration Plans line out the integration events and team expectations.
- Integration Events require advance preparation, a format that allows for a lot of interaction and attention to detail, and the ability to “go and see” when the team finds problems.
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LPDRC
Created:
September 16th, 2010
Updated:
September 16th, 2010
Prepare the Ground: A3 Reports, Nemawashi, and Effective Decision-Making
Key Takeaways:
- Knowledge has no value if an organization does not use it to make decisions.
- Nemawashi prepares the ground for effective decision-making by bringing the stakeholders into alignment around a proposal before they are asked to make a decision.
- It eliminates the wastes of revisited decisions and unproductive meetings by ensuring that proposals only get accepted when the organization is ready to commit fully to their success.
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LPDRC
Created:
August 11th, 2010
Updated:
August 11th, 2010