Blog - Nigel Thurlow

What is a High Reliability Organization (HRO) & Why It Matters | Operational Excellence Approach

Operational Context In today’s fast-paced and complex business landscape, reliability [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2025-04-02T01:14:58+00:00April 2, 2025|Leadership, Methods, Uncategorized|

Psychological Safety and the Cancel Culture

Management Summary I recently made a LinkedIn post that took [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2023-03-11T16:59:54+00:00March 10, 2023|Leadership, Lean Thinking|

How Scrum Rescued a Major Toyota Program

Management Summary In 2016 I was asked to review a [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2023-01-22T22:38:02+00:00January 6, 2023|Agile and Scrum, Blog, Lean Thinking|

The Agile Transformation Myth

The Agile transformation myth, a topic we will introduce in [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2023-01-13T15:59:01+00:00December 28, 2022|Agile and Scrum, Lean Thinking|

All About Lean Metrics

I decided to write this article as there are [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2025-04-11T14:55:51+00:00July 6, 2022|Blog, Lean Thinking, Methods, Toyota Production System|

Kanban in Knowledge Work Webinar Recording

Kanbanize KanConf 2 In this 2nd event of the KanConf [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2022-07-07T12:55:54+00:00July 5, 2022|Blog, Methods, Toyota Production System, Webinars|

What is Value Stream Mapping and Why You Should Care!

Do you know how you do what you do? This [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2022-07-07T12:55:25+00:00July 3, 2022|Methods, Toyota Production System|

Just-in-Time or Inventory Reduction System?

Do you run JIT or IRS? How is your kanban [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2022-07-03T21:36:59+00:00July 3, 2022|Toyota Production System|

Toyota Production System and The Roots of Lean – Nampachi Hayashi

The Roots of The Toyota Production System This video (publish [...]

By Nigel Thurlow|2022-07-07T12:55:08+00:00July 3, 2022|Toyota Production System|