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Sunday, August 21, 2011
LEAN FOR DUMMIES
This morning Kerry and I were lucky enough to have breakfast with our globe trotting and long-time friend Natalie Sayer who, along with Bruce Williams, wrote the fabulous book Lean For Dummies. According to Amazon.com the book sets out how "Competitive pressures force everyone to satisfy more demanding customers while using less of everything — time, energy, space, materials, and money. This no-nonsense guide shows you how to apply the proven philosophies and techniques of Lean to eliminate waste and maximize the effectiveness of your resources. You'll see step-by-step how to implement Lean practices in any type of organization".Over many years Rider Levett Bucknall's North American practice has been fortunate to have Natalie facilitate our strategic workshops. The workshops have always been fun and the resultant strategies a superb blend of vision and practicality.
The gem from this morning's breakfast was Natalie's vivid description of Toyota's view of the role of management in continual improvement…a topic that is near and dear to all of our hearts and especially our colleague (and Rider Levett Bucknall's eponymous) David Bucknall.
Cooperate, be leaders, help each other to succeed, help the project to succeed, apply research, improve project performance, improve client satisfaction, improve our professional skill levels and drive out waste from the design and construction process...all end goals of the Rider Levett Bucknall Method.
posted by The QS