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		<title>&#8220;The Remedy&#8221;</title>
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The Remedy &#8212; Bringing Lean Out of the Factory to Transform the Entire Organization by Pascal Dennis

What’s The Remedy About?
The Remedy is a business novel about a major auto company in free fall.  Taylor Motors is bankrupt and subsisting on government handouts.  To survive they need to prove they can manage in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theleanedge.org/?p=1507</link>
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		<title>Jeff Liker: the right IT system will bring us closer to one piece flow and support kaizen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we think of the material and information flow diagram then IT is dealing
with the information flow.  When we physically transform a process by moving
things around we are acting on the material flow. When we transform the
information presented to help make decisions we are dealing with IT whether it
is in the form of an empty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theleanedge.org/?p=1501</link>
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		<title>Godefroy Beauvallet: Is there a &#8220;Lean Way&#8221; to look at one firm&#8217;s IT? Can IT be made to change towards lean? What would be the first steps in such a journey?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lean is about creating a performance mindset, being aware of problems, and having problems solved locally as a way to develop people through problem-solving and fostering a &#8220;kaizen spirit&#8221;.
If one frames Lean that way, it seems hardly possible to practice it in any modern firm without getting across information technology questions: most of the work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theleanedge.org/?p=1499</link>
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		<title>Pascal Dennis:  You can&#8217;t flow or pull without Jidoka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me build on my colleagues insights:
1.     Jidoka is a socio-technical system.  Both the social and technical challenges are tough &#8212; but the former more so.

2.     Technical challenge:  How to translate customer requirements into meaningful upstream measures?  How to make the Good/No Good condition visible (see Art Smalley&#8217;s post)?  The following are part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theleanedge.org/?p=1495</link>
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		<title>Mike Rother: Jidoka &#8211; Ya Gotta Wanna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question asked:  What about Jidoka?
I think Jeff Liker and Art Smalley wrote standout responses to the question.  Interestingly, both describe Jidoka as operating within an organizational culture of problem solving and getting to the root cause of an issue. Yesterday an acquaintance, Mr. Angelo Lyall of Kaizen Solutions Inc., put it this way:
&#8220;A leader can establish, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theleanedge.org/?p=1444</link>
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