A3 Problem Solving: Why It Fails and What Toyota Teaches
The skills that sit between completing a template and [...]
How AI Reveals Bottlenecks and Improves Workflow: Lessons from Toyota
Seeing the System: From Toyota’s Material and Information Flow [...]
Lean Was Never the Point
Why It Is Time to Put Total Quality Management [...]
Automating a Broken System: The Hidden Risk of Agentic AI
Beyond The Chatbot Agentic AI is rapidly moving beyond [...]
The nature of the system determines what optimization should mean.
When Optimizing the Parts Makes More Sense Than Optimizing [...]
The Cost of Keeping Everyone Busy: Why High Utilization Slows Knowledge Work
Why Keeping Everyone Busy Makes Knowledge Work Slower High [...]
Why Transformations Fail: Leadership Must Change
The Transformation Leaders Want—and the Change They Avoid Are [...]
Why Everything Takes Longer: The Hidden Cost of Process Variation
Variation quietly shapes how work moves through every organization. It creates queues, delays, rework and waste, while averages and forecasts often conceal the instability beneath the surface. This article explores why leaders misdiagnose these problems, how work in progress and high utilization slow flow, and why lasting improvement begins by changing the system rather than demanding more effort.
Organizational Blindness: Why You Can’t Fix Your Own System
Organizational blindness is the gradual loss of an organization’s ability [...]
Kaizen, Kaikaku and Exaptation: Leading Through AI’s Punctuated Equilibrium
Five Key Takeaways for Leaders Continuous improvement is not always [...]