Month: January 2019

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PDCA vs PDSA: Deming’s Wheel, And Why Toyota’s Culture Makes PDCA Work

For decades, organisations around the world have been encouraged to adopt a simple, scientific cycle for improvement: PDCA. Or was it PDSA? And what about SDCA? Hang on a minute, my wheel is spinning.

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Just-in-Time Is Misunderstood – let the supermarket fix that.

For many organisations, JIT has been reduced to a slogan: strip out inventory. For others, it goes further and condemns Lean, a fully thought-through operating system.

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Lean and Six Sigma: Lessons from Arnie and The Predator

I was in a UK automotive company when one of the first Six Sigma programmes was being rolled out.  As a Lean consultant I was worried as my internal team were being reassigned to Black Belt training.