One of the first things when trying to build a culture of continuous improvement, or Kaizen, should be about standards. A standard (reflected in Standard Work) is a way to specify for your teams and organization on what good looks…
One of the occupational hazards of consulting is that you become very good at spotting problems. After a few minutes in a meeting room you start seeing things: processes that could probably be simpler, decisions that take longer than they…
Good question. And certainly for people on the American side of the ocean, the word A3 doesn’t necessarily ring a bell. The answer is very simple, but brilliant in its simplicity. So the question is: why is an A3 Problem…
I’m a fan of problem solving, that’s clear from this website. I like problems, I like solving problems and I like pushing teams to solve their problems. After all these years, working with all these teams and seeing both the…
Just a few weeks ago I was hiking in the Austrian Alps – don’t ask me why, but I’m happy I joined. It was a great experience, being offline for a week, walking above the clouds, facing some of your…
I’m a very strong believer in KPI’s, how it can drive a business forward, how it supports your strategy and mostly how it drives accountability and transparency with commercial teams. I’ve written earlier on how to do it well and…
hint: it’s all about leadership, empowerment and accountability In Lean manufacturing, there’s a lot of focus on standardisation. This is born out of the idea to control quality and to minimise waste in the process. Having well documented processes, proper…
Bad news happens fast, good news happens slow Morgan Housel on an interview with Diary of a CEO Morgan Housel, the author of a.o. the Psychology of Money, makes this quote in the context of how compounding on the long…
Today was the day that after a typical European summer break of six weeks, my two youngest boys had to go to school again (our teenager had 7 weeks of vacation and only starts on Wednesday with actual classes –…
As I’m camping in Sweden with my family right now, there are always those early morning, looking over a lake with only the sound of awakening birds, that I get even more philosophical as I already am by nature. Recently…