Tag: Metrics

I received another reader question (submit yours here) and it's about statistics, "daily Lean management," and visualizing performance data. Hey Mark: I like your posts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6-QgYNs3QI&t=3s Presented by Mark Graban on January 24, 2017 In this Webinar you will learn: Some of the common mistakes people make when looking at performance...

I’m talking about the use of “bar charts” vs. “line charts” when tracking performance measures through Lean Daily Management, Strategy Deployment, or other methods.

I arrived in San Francisco yesterday for the Lean Startup conference, where I gave my 5-minute Ignite format talk on the parallels between Lean...

A few thoughts while waiting for a Sunday flight... at least it's a Sunday flight towards home. One reason traditional organizations (and traditional leaders) struggle...

By Matt Wrye: I have been implementing lean over the last 10 years at five different companies. Only during the last eight years and...

Blog reader Darrin wrote and asked:Do you have any up-to-date sources for "word-class" numbers for lean metrics like % of Leadtime that is wasted,...

A somewhat recent experience prompted me to re-read portions of Donald Wheeler's outstanding book, Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos, with its section...

There's a column with that title in the current issue of Business 2.0 magazine, the Nov 2006 issue. I'm re-posting this because the article...

I was able to tour a hospital laboratory that had already gone through the lean process.One metric was a daily tally of "sticks per...

Rotorhub: The Information Hub of the Helicopter IndustryHere's an article about some military helicopter part production and a "lean" system.This jumped out at me:At...

Did I get your attention? OK, it was a misleading headline, sort of. Certainly, productivity and quality are important, as are safety and on-time...