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How To Reduce Over-Production

How do you reduce over-production? The basic rule is simple: Before producing something, check if it adds value.Click To Tweet It is best not to reduce over-produced results, because then the damage...

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Attack the Root Cause, Not the Symptoms

When something is causing us trouble, the natural reaction is to fix it quickly. Such troubles can be waste, as discussed earlier, but a lot of other things can go wrong, too. Unfortunately, just...

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Don’t Make Assumptions

Finding the root cause for a problem starts with a thorough analysis of a situation as it is right now. Attacking the symptoms is a sign for lazy thinking. My water tap example was a little too simple...

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Lean Chicken Incident

One standard method of Lean to find root causes of a problem is the “5 Why” method. It is quite simple: If you face a problem, ask yourself why often enough to find the real reason.Click To Tweet Let...

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What was the Root Cause? (Exercise)

Exercise 16: Pick one of the following examples or something that happened in the recent past and try “5 Why.” Unpaid bills Forgotten to-dos A car accident A quarrel at home or at work Bad grades in an...

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Fishy Affairs (Finding Complex Root Causes)

Even if complex problems need a more detailed analysis, we want to find a way of writing down the results easily. This is what fishbone diagrams are for. With fishbone diagrams, you can analyze...

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Root out of Reach

Although it is a good idea to dig deeply in order to find root causes, you can go too deep. When you dig to deep, a root value analysis becomes useless.Click To Tweet If you come to root causes...

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Digging Deeper (Exercise)

Exercise 17: Choose a major problem you have had in the last six months and draw a fishbone diagram to analyze it. Start with a good problem statement.Click To Tweet You can use the (standard)...

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Time is not Money – Time is Life

Everybody knows it. Time that has past cannot be replenished. What is gone is gone. But who acts according to this knowledge? I have no scientific statistics to back this claim up, but I dare to say:...

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The Mythology Of Management Seems To Start in First Grade

Today I present a post by Mike Stoecklein. Thank you to Mike that he alows me to republish this here. I still remember some things from when I was in kindergarten.  My teacher was Mrs. Sears.  We took...

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