Events Exercises Training 
The Lean Thinker
AUGUST 31, 2022
Kaizen Events. Kaizen events (or whatever we want to call the traditional week-long activity): Can be a useful tool when used in the context of an overall plan. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not. The content of training is as critical as the way it is delivered.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 23, 2024
Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.
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The Lean Thinker
OCTOBER 13, 2020
It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. Throw them away if you aren’t willing to train to them, mistake proof to them and reinforce following them. PDCA Thinking. Today we would use Toyota Kata to teach this.
3PL Insights
MARCH 6, 2020
There is always an event showing our holiday spirit, whether it be Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, March Madness and Opening Day. We also throw holiday themed events like our recent Valentine’s Day blog-a-thon. The goal of these events is to allow employees to have fun with other employees they don’t normally work with.
Logistics in War
AUGUST 18, 2019
Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. The combat force becomes a ‘one-shot wonder’ with little in reserve or in the training pipeline. In Part One of this series asking the question, ‘how much readiness is enough?’
10xLogistics
MARCH 22, 2020
You have a permanent "active" force and you have a large "reserve" force which can be called up and which actively practices, trains. Similiar exercises were done in Korea and other places. It would allow us to train so we are ready right away. By being trained we don't take months to just figure out "how things work".
The Lean Thinker
JULY 2, 2024
With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. During the break, work teams were expected to do some homework assignments.
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