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5 Levels of Toyota’s Work Standardization: Learning from the Source.
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: The following guest post comes from Oscar Roche of the TWI Institute. Lean Frontiers is pleased to welcome Oscar as presenter

Conducting workplace experiments
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: The following guest post comes from Oscar Roche of the TWI Institute. Lean Frontiers is pleased to welcome Oscar as presenter

$600 million in new sales, and thousands in saved lives – that is the value of my learnings at LPPDE
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: The following was an email sent by our friends at the Lean Product & Process Development Exchange. It’s a testament to

How is your Management System Working?
ABOUT THIS ARTICLE: This article was written by Skip Steward, Vice President and Chief Improvement Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care headquartered in Memphis, TN.

LPPDE History: Part 1 The Early Years
NOTE from Lean Frontiers: From it’s beginning, Lean Frontiers, Inc. has supported the vision and mission of LPPDE as a non-profit organization. Leading up to

Common Sense Lean: You Can Only Sell What You Have!
Written by Norbert Majerus, LPPDE Board Member If I was selling goods on line that I do not have, I might go to jail. Or

What Does TWI Mastery Look Like?
Written by Oscar Roche, TWI Institute The Oxford Dictionary defines mastery as comprehensive knowledge or skill in a particular subject or activity. ‘Comprehensive’ means? The

Operational Excellence for the Cost Accountant
By Gary Kapanowski In the classic movie “The Wizard of Oz,” when Dorothy wakes up after getting caught in a twister, she says to her

Learning like they do at Toyota
by Jamie Smith, TWI Institute Toyota Kata is not something you “implement,” it is something you practice. You learn, and gain skill and competence in

Toyota Kata Training: Conferences, Workshops, and Online Learning
Since Toyota Kata was first published by Mike Rother, several outstanding courses have been developed in the Kata community to move learners from basic awareness,

Why Does Training Within Industry (TWI) Matter; What Is It?
Written by Oscar Roche, TWI Institute Australia and New Zealand Operational excellence will be near impossible without a strong and continuous contribution from frontline leaders.

Muda in the Business Case
BY GARY KAPANOWSKI AND BENJAMIN B. BENSON To really capture the current scenario in the lean community, we turn to this age-old maxim: To be