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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

These are some notes I wrote back in 2005 that I thought might be interesting here. Kaizen Events. Kaizen events (or whatever we want to call the traditional week-long activity): Can be a useful tool when used in the context of an overall plan. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

4] Routine exercises and training can achieve high standards of preparedness, at least for a time. There is no guarantee that the architects of strategy will heed the results of planning as events outpace the products of industrious minds, or proclivities and politics prevail. 3] Galvin, T., 4] Betts., 6] Van Creveld, M., 7] Betts.,