Lean Management or Lean Manufacturing when understood properly can create excellent companies able to compete on a global level. Why? Many reasons. One of them is the creation of a kaizen mindset that challenges current way of doing things by removing all kinds of muda that resides through out the process. Remove non value added activities or steps will definitely shortened the process time and energy.. thus ultimately creating a high value process chain. Not only muda, but muri and mura must be reduced or eliminated if we really want to be a world class organization whether private or public, manufacturing and non manufacturing including banks, hotels and other services.. Do it now for our country.
Pursuing Lean
June 19, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Japan Life
February 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Japan Life
Traveling and living in Japan can be enlightening for many people. I have travelled and lived in quite a few places in Japan including Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima and many others since 1983.
I lived in Mizushima, Okayama during parts of 1983 to 1984 for training in automobile manufacturing. Fast forward 2009, I went to Kitakyushu for the APIEMS conference. And then 2010 to Tokyo for conference and research initiatives, and every year since 2011 for teaching and research in Meiji University, and in Spring of 2015 for my sabbatical in Meiji Univeersity.
There are too many good features that one can adopt such as cleanliness, punctuality, discipline, hardworking and industrious, friendly, helpful, and many more. If you have a good command of Japanese (Nihongo) that would be much better as you can enjoy going places, eating delicious Japanese food, and understand their culture and life better.
