“I collaboratori non sono vasi da riempire, ma fiaccole da accendere.”

  Bruno Fabiano è Partner Kaizen Institute Italia  BARATSUKI È UN TERMINE GIAPPONESE che significa più o meno “dispersione”. Un esempio di baratsuki è facilmente ottenibile se immaginiamo di prendere una manciata di noccioline, le lanciamo in aria e osserviamo come si dispongono una volta cadute a terra. Il termine descrive molto bene la situazione in cui si ritrovano diverse

How Plan-Do-Check-Act (#PDCA) Helped My Running

Article written by Michael Girdler I had a bit of an issue. Actually more than a bit, I had an issue. I  run nearly every day, for almost 30 years. I’ve always found great pleasure in my running and would arrive home after a run invigorated and with high energy. However, over the last 3-4 months, something had changed. I returned

The #Kata of Leader #Development

A great article written by Mark Rosenthal  (TheLeanThinker.com) I’ve been parsing Turn the Ship Around to better understand David Marquet’smessage from his experience as captain of the USS Santa Fe (SSN 763), a Los Angeles Class nuclear powered attack submarine. And I’ve been promising to link his concepts back to Toyota Kata. So now I’m going to try to do that.

Increasing needs of Kaizen in Pharma Industry

This is an interesting article romoted by THE KAIZEN INSTITUTE INDIA. Increasing cost pressures, rising competition, country specific approval procedures, losses in sales due to expiring patents, etc. are few of the hurdles faced by organizations in pharmaceuticals industry. Research shows that most of the organizations have adopted or implemented Kaizen/ Lean/ Operational Excellence, however more than 50% have not

10 Tips to organize your home using Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma can make life easier and more enjoyable at home, too! Here are a few great ways to use Lean Six Sigma concepts and tools at home every day: 1. Our knife drawer has its own Shadow Board. This helps because all knives have their specific place (see photo above). This helps us put knives away more quickly and find

Six Sigma, Lean or Kaizen? That is the question

For more than a decade, publications such as Fortune, Business Week and hundreds of books have stressed the human side of change, infrastructure, customer focus, boundaryless and learning organizations, innovation and out-of-box thinking, and cultural transformation. Executives continue to send their employees off to Six Sigma, Lean, or Kaizen boot camps to learn the tools, but they are often disappointed