http://oldleandude.com/2011/11/02/illogical-progression/ A Blog About Understanding TPS and Gaining Its Full Benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy" Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oldleandude.com/2011/11/02/illogical-progression/#comment-489 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:46:52 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=679#comment-489 [...] Lean Dude, aka Bruce Hamilton, aka “Toast Guy”, writes in Illogical Progression on how hoshin gets used as an organization progresses on their lean [...]

]]> http://oldleandude.com/2011/11/02/illogical-progression/#comment-483 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:24:32 +0000 http://oldleandude.com/?p=679#comment-483 I quite agree. Skills4Work’s New Zealand lean training includes senior leadership training and shop floor training in a pilot area.
We liken the journey to ‘reading a book’ – you don’t know your topic, so you need to trust the process and just keep reading. As consultants we give a roadmap for the training period. At the end of the training period the leadership team comes up with a roadmap for the next 12 months – mostly focusing on the nuts and bolts of which area will do 5S next, who will be responsible for completing the actions from the Value Stream Map, fixed dates for company communication and leadership meetings, etc.
Usually some ideas for Key Performance Indicators are emerging but we encourage leaders to spend quality time developing meaningful KPIs before setting objectives for them. In the early days (12-24 months) the biggest objective is to get staff engaged and establish management processes – the rest comes later.

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