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Talking about Leadership usually means reflecting about listening skills, feedback, delegating, responsibility etc. We want to discuss an additional topic: Rules.

Many trainers are a lot of fun to listen to. Many trainings are exciting to participate in. Although they can be great and fun, they are not necessarily useful.

Performance is visually tracked in an easy-to-understand way. And what’s tracked has real time updates.
This means: At one glance it is clear, the recent hours’ or latest shift’s performance was good or bad. It shows whether targets were met…

Mind the people – 3 points to pay attention to when GEMBA walking.    The best thing about going to see “the real place” is meeting the real people. Your goals are to raise motivation, trigger ideas for improvement and ensure people can perform. 1. Interest shows...

Going to Gemba, your role is to ensure Standard Work is actually happening.  1. Goal Orientation Before you start, make up your mind: Where do you expect Standard Work to be in place? Where is transparency, quality or efficiency crucial to this place? Here you would...

Manufacturing Technology Insights Magazin oConsulting is one of the Top 10 Lean Manufacturing Consulting/Services Companies The constringent transition and adoption to lean manufacturing is hard enough, but coupled with the complexity of keeping production and ROI...

“Really a board?” – we hear many of our clients ask. “Why not a screen bringing online data to the shopfloor?” … This would be “no effort” as data is directly taken from the system and it brings the spirit of digitalization, doesn’t it… ? Yes AND no. A quick deep-dive...

Nein, damit ist nicht der CPV Hundevirus gemeint! Obwohl die Methodik hier und da ähnlich erfreut willkommen geheißen wird, wie ein Sack Hundeflöhe. Zu Unrecht, sagen wir! CPV “Continued Process Verification” bzw. OVP „Ongoing Process Verification“ ist ein Werkzeug...