News
The impact of agility: How to shape your organization to compete | McKinsey
Insights from over 2,000 global respondents reveal the recipe for an agile transformation that delivers real business impact. Special Report Agility is on everyone’s lips—online searches for “agile transformation” yield around 100 million hits, and the stories of well-known pioneers circulate widely. But is this just hype, or are there real benefits to be gained? Is agility just noise from the IT department, or an opportunity that merits serious attention from the top team? And if pursuing agility yields benefits, what is the recipe for success?
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Events
Virtual Process Improvement - An Essential Tool for 2021 and Beyond Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Do you have processes? You need to improve and change them? You use something like Visio to map your processes? Have a look at this: About this event A process map is a planning and management tool that visually describes the flow of work. Using process mapping software, maps show a series of events that produce an end result. The process map is also a great way to visualize the path of a workflow and can be used to help employees better understand the relationship between their work and the impact it has on the overall organization. It is a powerful tool for change.
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Digital Leaders Week® 2021 by Digital Leaders Week®
Why take part in Digital Leaders Week? Welcome to the UK’s biggest single gathering of people focused on digital transformation.
Are you a leader in the UK’s digital marketplace for ideas, initiatives and services? Is your organisation or place? If the answer is yes, then Digital Leaders Week 2021 is for you.
Take part, because those with the answers and those who are driving forward digital transformation in the UK are speaking, running workshops, sharing the very best practice and offering solutions that are practical and real.
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The Future of Lean: Embracing Digital - S A Partners
Join us for an interactive workshop where we will look at how emerging technology can be used to unlock productivity and performance, by engaging all employees in CI. During the workshop process automation experts NINTEX will share how organisations have embraced digital, the types of platforms available and how to get started with digital transformation.
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Lean
The Toyota Way and Toyota Kata
I’d like to clear up some confusion about the relationship between the Toyota Way and Toyota Kata. The Toyota Way (which I discuss in the new, second edition of my book The Toyota Way) summarizes the management system Toyota has evolved over the last century, while Toyota Kata was developed by Mike Rother for a specific purpose—as practice routines to begin to develop the rudiments of scientific thinking. Are these two systems compatible or do we have to choose one to believe in? I have had an insider seat to both, since I have been studying Toyota for over 35 years and Mike was my graduate student at University of Michigan, and we regularly have long discussions over coffee.
umich.edu
What is Standardised Work? - Lean Enterprise Academy
What is Standardised Work? 23rd April 2021 - David Brunt Standardised work is “the most effective combination of manpower, material and machinery.” It is based on three elements:
Takt time – the rate at which we must complete work in a process to meet demand (pace of customer demand); Work sequence – the precise major steps a team member performs tasks within the takt time to complete the work. Standard in process stock – the minimum amount of stock required to fulfil the takt time and work sequence with the minimal amount of waiting time. The minimum amount of stock required to keep the process running or operating smoothly.
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Deep dive in a lean digital company #1 - Planet Lean
Great series of Lean articles here. NOTES FROM THE GEMBA – The author visits the office of Theodo France and learns how the lean digital company is leveraging lean thinking and practice to support its ongoing growth – even through the pandemic.
planet-lean.com
Agile
New study: Developers' skills and top management commitment lead to Agile project success | EurekAlert! Science News
New study: Developers' skills and top management commitment lead to Agile project success
eurekalert.org
Ideas
From idea to design: A practitioners innovation program – Playing Lean
FROM IDEA TO DESIGN: A PRACTITIONERS INNOVATION PROGRAM Last year, the dreadful 2020, although full of uncertainty, for us was a chance to bring some light to our community with quality webinars, hosting some of the best practitioners in the world to discuss innovation. One of those practitioners is Mohamad Mahdi, a certified Playing Lean facilitator and a certified LEGO Serious Play facilitator, who strongly believes in the concept of learning by playing.
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A slice at a time
In high performing organisations innovation is one of key pillars of sustaining long term business success. I've argued before that changing appropriately is one of the key elements of Profitable Innovation™.
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