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5S Store: Store back immediately after use
Store immediately after use. This 5S habit reminds you to get things done: store everything in its place right after you use it, or the job is not finished.
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5S Store – Define a home for ease of use
Microstep #5: Define a home for ease of use
This microstep is the habit of always organizing objects in a functional way, which allows you to immediately find what is needed when it is needed and especially how it is needed.
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5S Your Life – Assign responsibilities for maintenance
There is no better way to keep something clean than to prevent it from getting dirty in the first place. How do you prevent it? By assigning clear owners for the maintenance of each location/item. This is micro-step #7 in the 5S Your Life methodology, the first one in the shine step, to achieve self-organization and stop procrastination.
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5S Your Life – Shine
The third step of the 5S methodology is shine. This phase focuses on shining and cleaning everything to spot hidden problems (oil leaks, water drops, etc.). Cleaning is not just a matter of image; it is a matter of good communication. You can detect errors easily!
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Implementing 5S as a branding strategy
5s has been for a long type a tool to simply improve workplace organization and establishing a structure to initiate other lean implementations. 5S more than a tool, is a culture, and you can use it as a branding strategy.
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Is Agile the new Lean?
Companies nowadays are no longer focusing on standardizing and ensuring quality. Quality is no longer value-added, is required. Lean and six sigma implementations are falling short, not because of quality issues, but because employees are not engaged enough to change. Unhappy employees equal unhappy customers. Now what, is agile the new lean?
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From heroes to agile leaders: how to ease the transition
While agile thinking is starting to grow into executive mindsets as a solution to increase the ability of the companies to achieve customer satisfaction, leaders are dealing with keeping employees engaged and getting things done. How are agile leaders easing the transition? You probably have been in a leadership Read more…
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How to bring agile innovation to the workplace
To stay ahead of the competition and becoming a world-class organization, companies know they need to bring agile innovation to the workplace, the question is HOW to start. Español – Companies nowadays are no longer looking forward to just survive, they want to thrive, be the customer favorite option. Changes Read more…
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November is the Global Quality Month
November is the Global Quality Month, it’s a time to celebrate and showcase quality and innovation. Do you know why November has been chosen as the World Quality Month? The roots of quality management can be traced back to the early 1910s. In 1911, Frederick W. Taylor published ‘The Principles Read more…
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3 steps to use design thinking to build empathy with your customers
Design thinking is being applied to solve problems, discover creative solutions, and to evangelize customers. Learn how you can use it together with your quality management tools. I always say that the most important part of your company are your customers, both internal (employees) and external (final customers). Why? Because Read more…