Comments on: Playing Fast – American Football and Lean http://lssacademy.com/2007/04/11/playing-fast-american-football-and-lean/ Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and Kaizen Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:21:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ron Pereira http://lssacademy.com/2007/04/11/playing-fast-american-football-and-lean/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Ron Pereira Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:26:00 +0000 http://lssacademy.com/?p=198#comment-363 That reminds of the story in The Toyota Way (I think this is where I read this) of how standard work documents face away from Toyota workers since they know what to do. The documents are so others (managers, etc.) can verify the work is really being done correctly. Yet another great Toyota example of playing fast. That reminds of the story in The Toyota Way (I think this is where I read this) of how standard work documents face away from Toyota workers since they know what to do. The documents are so others (managers, etc.) can verify the work is really being done correctly. Yet another great Toyota example of playing fast.

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…having fast hands is not the same thing as working efficiently. Having the fastest…

]]> By: Jon Miller http://lssacademy.com/2007/04/11/playing-fast-american-football-and-lean/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Jon Miller Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:14:00 +0000 http://lssacademy.com/?p=198#comment-365 In Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management there is a story he tells about one of the companies he is teaching. They were proud that their workers were "fast" but he pointed out that having fast hands is not the same thing as working wthe fastest machine or process doesn't help if you've got hiccups in your supply chain execution process. In Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management there is a story he tells about one of the companies he is teaching. They were proud that their workers were “fast” but he pointed out that having fast hands is not the same thing as working wthe fastest machine or process doesn’t help if you’ve got hiccups in your supply chain execution process.

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