Mark’s note: I consider myself very fortunate to have met Patrick Anderson during my journeys in the Lean world. Patrick is the executive director of Chugachmiut, a non-profit corporation to advance the overall economic, social and cultural development of the…
I’m not sure if the survey is available online, but I’m sure many of you just received the annual email survey from the Lean Enterprise Institute. Last year, we gave some constructive criticism and feedback to our friends at the…
Following up again on the “5 Whys” survey, I’m still planning on going through and categorizing the analyzing the full responses, but I wanted to go ahead and release the full text of the responses. Download the PDF here. Example…
Here is another look at the “lean obstacles” survey questions, again breaking it down by some key demographic factors (more details here). Looking first at the split between Private and Public companies, there don’t appear to be any major disparities…
I took another look at the “lean obstacles” survey questions, but this time breaking it down by some key demographic factors (more details here): Public vs. Private Company Revenue Organizational Level Again, I wish had the n=2000+ sample size of…
Here are demographics from my “5 Whys” survey, in case anyone is interested. I’m going to try to do some basic breakdowns to see how the data differ from large companies vs. small, etc. I wish the LEI would report…
Question 2 in the Lean Blog survey about Lean obstacles took the same choices as Question 1 and forced the respondents to choose the TOP reason why they struggled with Lean. The choice that wasn’t available in the LEI survey…
You might recall the annual Lean Enterprise Institute survey that included a question about obstacles to Lean implementation. You might also recall our discussion about the “blaming” that seemed to go on in the survey responses (blame that included everybody…
Following up on the LEI survey that was released and discussed here, I’ve been talking with a few folks offline about what the “root causes” really are for Lean struggles. Instead of pointing at “who?” what would we find if…
The LEI is out with their annual survey (pdf) about our ongoing struggles implementing Lean, with articles (reprinting the press release) and blog posts already written, The results aren’t the views of the LEI, but are the views of the…
