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2 Mar 2021 4 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Every person has a mission in his life, whether explicit or implicit, structured or disorganized. Successful people state their missions explicitly. They strive to achieve them through systematic planning, doing, checking, and acting on results to ke...
28 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Being lean or fat for an organization is an outcome of its own internal practices. Likewise, the transformation process from one state to the other can be achieved at its own discretion. However, not all fat-lean transformations are healthy. Amongst...
27 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
The difference between a lean and a fat organization is waste. Lean + Waste = Fat, if you will. Hence, for an organization to transform into a lean state it should trim as much waste as possible. But, what is Waste anyways? and what variant shapes co...
26 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Rooting out process or system wastes along with their causes is a key step for effective fat-to-lean transformation endeavor. A handful of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tools can be used to eliminate wastes. However, institutionalizing a waste eliminatio...
25 Feb 2021 5 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
An environment where people have to think brings with it wisdom, and this wisdom brings with it Kaizen (continuous improvement).– Teruyuki Minoura, former President and CEO of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Traditional continuous improvement projects ar...
24 Feb 2021 4 minute read 0 comments MohdBarakat
Boosting product or service offering with optimized cost is a strategic objective of most manufacturing and service industries in the world. Nevertheless, tactics to achieve this objective range from shortsighted organizational downsizing and payroll...
3 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." - John Keats - There is a special power in anonymous random acts of kindness, and your heart will sing an unseen song long after you did some, even if you do not know the one benefiting from...
