Nov 19 2013
Fundamentals of Performance Metrics | Bill Waddell
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Received a question the other day: “If you were allowed to use 3 metrics to operate by, what would they be (and why) if you were: (1) a CEO, (2) a Plant Manager, (3) a Value Stream Manager, (4) a Purchasing Manager, and (5) a Sales Manager.” In…
Michel Baudin‘s insight:
A thoughtful, rant-free article, focused primarily on the language of money. My few blog posts on the subject were on metrics in the language of things, as spoken on production shop floors:
- Chart junk in performance boards and presentations
- Companies focus on what is easy to measure
- Metrics in Lean recorded webinar
- Alternatives to Rank-and-Yank in Evaluating People
- Productivity of a Quality Assurance department
- Lead times and inventory
- Metrics on the web versus manufacturing
- Metrics gaming and how to prevent it
- Metrics of Equipment
- Metrics of Quality
- Requirements on Metrics
- The staying power of bad metrics
- Orbit charts, and why you should use them
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Nov 27 2013
From Kaizen to the Kaizen Blitz | Blue Heron Journal
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Ken McGuire: “My humble observation is that the degree of enthusiasm about all things Lean is in direct inverse correlation to how recently the enthusiast has discovered it.”
Enlightening account from participants in the invention of the Kaizen Blitz in the US in the 1990s.
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