A few weeks back, the British media was having a field day with reports of and complaints about what sounds like a horribly misguided “office lean” effort at a British government office. Read more about it. The picture below is from one newspaper article (with my added labels). It shows a desk where every item’s location is marked with black tape. Read more (in a later post) about why this image is labeled as “Bad 5S.” … Continue reading Misguided ‘Office Lean’: How Bad 5S Practices Give Lean a Bad Name