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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

That actually isn’t a bad analogy as I was advocating a pretty dramatic shift in the role of the kaizen workshop leaders. Thus, focusing on implementing the tools of TPS (takt time, flow, pull, etc) outside of the immediate response and problem solving context is an exercise which expends energy and gains very little sustainable change.

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Planning to sustain the force – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part Two

Logistics in War

Of course we expect our people to be flexible, to ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’, and they did this magnificently. Combat units particularly had fallen into a very austere mindset exacerbated by short exercises where soldiers and unit-level Q staff were able to be self-sufficient for the duration.