Topic: Innovation, Leadership, Lean Accounting, Lean Economics, Lean Management, Lean Product Development, SkillPoint, Standardized Work, Toyota Kata, TWI

Jim Shorts

May 25, 2022
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Jim Shorts are brief stories on lean history, lean trivia, and other related information and stories.

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The history of flow production is long and precedes Toyota and its great work in this area. Ford’s Highland Park Plant is a source and also the writings of Alexander Hamilton Church in 1910! Some review of AH Church sounds more like contemporary descriptions, not something from over 100 years ago.

jim February 2, 2023

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Some history on flow production from the writing of Alexander Hamilton Church – over 100 years ago. The implementation of flow production was realized and articulated early in the 20th century. History worth studying – and pre-Toyota’s flow production.

jim December 27, 2022

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Famous industrial and management Historian, Alfred Chandler Jr., and author of The Visible Hand (https://lnkd.in/gc5Qkiyd), noted who developed financial methods – it happens to be the some people who pioneered many of the methods we call “lean” today, and, particularly, early innovations of lean accounting. And they used “scientific thinking” and practices to develop these methods – where are our scientific thinking pioneers today?

jim November 2, 2022

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