We Talk A Lot About Problem-Solving, but What is a Problem?
By Justin Tao What is Problem Solving? Solving Problems is a part of almost every person’s daily life both at...
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New Lean Thinking: How Understanding Customer Value is Key to Disrupting Your Market
The recent Best Practice Network National Summit with its theme of “People, Technology and Business” has provoked a lot of...
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Four Lean Strategies for Uncertain Economic Times
Lean Strategies for Uncertain Economic Times If we were to choose one word to describe business conditions at the start...
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Making Sense of your Problems with The Cynefin Framework
Cynefin Framework offers decision-makers a way to view a situation or problem. The model helps categorise the situation and assists...
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A Multi Level Approach to Problem Solving with Trigger Points
As you and your company travel along the lean journey, the ability for your team to identify and take part...
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The Metrics of Concern Strips
Across manufacturing sectors we are living in a data-rich world, which is both a blessing and a curse. Data can...
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What Personality Type is Best Suited to Problem Solving
Most of us, at some point in recent memory will have been subjected to a personality test. Most likely it...
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Lean Problem Solving – The Best of Our Blog
Over the past year, we have noticed that some of the the most popular blogs and Linked In posts that...
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Top Five Lean Manufacturing Techniques to Improve Quality
The lean revolution started around 30 years ago with the "Quality Movement" lead by the likes of W. Edwards Deming....
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Learning to Define the “Problem”
To improve our problem solving skills we need to begin by clearly defining the "problem". Those involved in the problem...
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Implementing a Robust Problem Solving Process
A key transition step from "implementing" Lean to it becoming a way of life is how we build problem solving...
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Using Fishbone Diagrams to Solve Problems
Fishbone diagrams may also be referred to as cause and effect diagrams, or Ishikawa diagrams, after their founder Kaoru Ishikawa....
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Implementing Daily Problem Solving
A robust problem solving approach is the best method for tackling problems while implementing a Lean production system....
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Focus on “the logistics of problem solving.”
The SPED (Solving Problems Every Day) method is about solving many small problems every day. Most problems can be simply...
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