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What Is Your Target Story?

The Lean Thinker

Then develop training experiences and exercises that they believe will allow the learner to pass the test. As in the example above, a target condition should also be testable. As in the example above, a target condition should also be testable. Do that before they even think about how they are going to teach it.

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Mike Rother: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide

The Lean Thinker

On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. That book provides working examples of vertical linkage between organizational strategy and shop floor improvement efforts. Study the Process’s Operating Patterns.

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Raising Productivity in Logistics Operations: The BHAG Approach

Logistics Bureau

The person who gave the presentation I attended offered the example of a speech by late US President John F. As I explain in a YouTube video on this subject, I recently saw a good example of how a BHAG can galvanise a workforce and make a dramatic impact on productivity. For example, their increase in productivity was 217 percent.

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Warehouse Capacity – How to Increase It and Avoid Moving

Logistics Bureau

They’re trying to sort of retrofit or redesign existing warehouses to fit more in. So 85 maybe 90% depends on the sort of storage media that you’re using. Businesses merging and sort of at the same time rationalizing their warehouse network, but also trying to fit more in. So it’s a very common challenge.

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

The media, think-tanks and all sorts of commentators have followed Ukraine’s experience of invasion to find another prompt that something should be done. There are, of course, many other examples where assumptions had led to risks being accepted in advance of war, and preparedness failures occurred as a result.

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How to Attain Quick Wins with Lean Supply Chain Cost Reduction

Logistics Bureau

You might choose for example to look at the replenishment and picking processes in your warehouse/s. Eliminating just one or two steps in any process can contribute to supply chain cost reduction, for example by improving productivity and reducing the amount of overtime used by warehouse teams.

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Persuade the customer otherwise.