http://leanskills.org Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:17:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Much of Lean is common sense – and LeanSkills is working to make it more common! Mapping out what is value and what is waste is essential in these crisis times; eliminating waste can reduce your carbon footprint and improve your balance sheet; analysing the root cause of down-time and ... http://leanskills.org/?p=103 Do your problems not stay solved? Do you spend half your time solving the same problems that you thought you fixed yesterday? Do you spend your time solving problems that others should be solving? You need Root Cause Analysis (RCA)! The LeanSkills Root Case Intensive will explore a number of simple but powerful problwm ... http://leanskills.org/?p=85 5S is a tool to declutter, get organized, work more efficiently and stay that way. It is a simple tool that yields immediate and visible benefit and gains buy in from the team whether that be in the factory, the office or some other function. 5S has been the starting point ... http://leanskills.org/?p=69 Many enterprises are investing in green improvements, or planning to, to improve their sustainability. With the imminent introduction of carbon trading and the social pressure to improve corporate citizenship by reducing the impact on the environment and climate change, all businesses will have to take stock of their environmental impact ... http://leanskills.org/?p=60 Value stream mapping (also called value chain mapping) is a powerful tool to allow you to identify all the steps in your process and determine how much value, and how much waste (muda) it is adding to your product. Looking at the 'seven deadly wastes' improves your capacity to deliver ... http://leanskills.org/?p=81 Change is all around us and indeed is being forced on us. Kaizen is about ‘good change’ and is something we need to implement in order to adapt, survive and even thrive in the current climate. Don’t just react to change. Drive change to improve your business. Kaizen is ... http://leanskills.org/?p=62