What Makes a Great Supply Chain Manager?
By Timothy McLean, author of “On Time in Full: Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Chain and...
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Lean Farming: Five Ways You Can Improve Productivity
Lean Farming can be achieved by applying Lean manufacturing methodologies on the farm. Tim McLean explains 5 ways you can...
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What White Cars in Istanbul Have to Tell Us About Creating a Lean Culture
Managing Director Tim McLean writes about culture and how it has a huge impact on how your business will perform....
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How to Build Your Own Kanban Boards
Building your own Kanban board can be a lot easier if you follow these three considerations....
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The 3 Elements of Creating Standard Work
Creating Standard Work has major benefits to you and your teams. Read how TXM identify and implement standard work across...
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Five Career Limiting Mistakes Operations Leaders Should Avoid
Managing operations is tough, whether you are in manufacturing, service, distribution or resources. You are responsible for ensuring that the...
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Five Tips for Designing an Organisational Structure that Works
It would be nice to think that people in an organisation could just organise themselves and work out what they...
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Our Top Five Lean Leadership Videos
Over the years, Lean Leadership has been a key focus of our blogs and videos. TXM Lean Solutions has plenty...
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The Role Of Your Senior Leadership Team In Ensuring Lean Delivers Results
The Role of Your Senior Leadership Team Explained Embracing Lean thinking and making it part of your corporate DNA is...
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Is Your Business Ready for Lean?
Is Lean Right For You? We see many businesses that are facing big problems. Often there are major problems...
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Does Industry 4.0 Mean the End of Lean?
Does Industry 4.0 Mean the End of Lean? In the last couple of years I have been asked a surprising...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 4: Stopping Passive Acceptance
Creating a Lean culture, or for that matter creating any positive change, seems very difficult in some organisations. They seem...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 3: Overcoming Learned Helplessness
Observing many companies, we often find four big cultural barriers – complacency, low expectations, learned helplessness, and passive acceptance. So...
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Overcoming Four Big Barriers to a Lean Culture Part 2: Beating Low Expectations
Creating a Lean culture, or for that matter creating any positive change, seems very difficult in some organisations. They seem...
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Overcoming The Four Big Barriers To A Lean Culture Part 1: Breaking Through Complacency
How Do You Create a Lean Culture? Creating a Lean culture, or for that matter creating any positive change, seems...
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How to Recruit a Great Operations Manager
How do you recruit a great Operations Manager i? We talked to an experienced manufacturing recruiter and came up with...
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What Makes a Great Operations Manager?
So what are the signs that you have hired a really effective Operations Manager or General Manager in your business?The...
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How to Avoid the Senior Management Revolving Door in Your Business
The “management revolving door” is a disaster for your business. Apart from the direct recruitment and severance costs of hiring...
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Business Health Check: The Three Key Indicators For Your Daily Walk Around
Active leadership is important to continuous improvement and a daily walk around to determine the health of your business can...
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“Lean Won’t Work Here”, Try the “Quick Wins” Approach Instead
Is there a way for people not to “roll their eyes" when the “lean” word is out of the bag?...
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