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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

I was going through some old files and came across a pocket card we handed out back in 2003 or so. The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. Do you have “standard work” documents that are rarely followed? Kent Bowen. Sometimes that gap is small.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

For example, American commentators go so far as saying there is a ‘crisis’ in flagging a range of contemporary preparedness problems within the US Department of Defense including aviation incidents, capability gaps created with lower Defence budgets, and inadequate logistics support to the fielded force. 1] ADDP 00.2

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation. Instead of using Google to search scientific literature, imagine hundreds of women using massive mainframe computers searching for physical documents based on key words submitted by scientists. This method is also a part of the IRB study to test it on 30 people. .