I ran across this article the from _The New Yorker_ a few weeks back and I thought this group might be interested (maybe I ran across it in this group, if so I...
Hi, Flying airplanes requires checklists. All the professional coaching school websites that I've explored are replete with checklists. The 'problem' in both...
I will have to do more research on CRM (just what I need a new TLA). I don't understand your post, are you suggesting checklists (and standard work) don't have...
I think checklists are a complementary idea to kanban systems. 1. A kanban workflow is, itself, a kind of checklist. When the work of one process is done, the...
Hi, Well I try to provide more ammunition, or bait, for perspective/discussion. It's not right - wrong, switching, or good - bad, more a yin yang dynamic...
Hi everyone, I want to point you to an international survey studying the effects of cooperation on work conditions, and discriminating agile teams/companies. ...
Hank - that's very funny I read the article in its original form and seen a few other references since but didn't think of its potential application to ...
I've just got back from seeing the movie "No Country for Old Men". I thought that some of you might appreciate this little bit of dialogue: Bad boss man: Did I...
No, just the opposite. Wells in engaging in mass production thinking. Lean keeps people busy, not equipment. "The machine-output ratio at Toyota Motors is two...
Thanks Corey. An example with people then: What if it were a firefighter sitting around doing nothing? Would that be waste? Clarke ... -- Clarke Ching ...
Hello, Clarke. On Friday, February 8, 2008, at 3:07:26 PM, you ... Could we be just as safe from fires without that person sitting around? Ron Jeffries ...
So, we should mistake-proof the buildings against fire... Built Quality In. But because we can´t have 100% fire prevention and supression everywhere (despite...
The majority of calls in the US for fire fighters are EMT responses. Very few fires due to fire safety. Now trucks respond when an ambulance is dispatched....
Is an empty airline seat waste? Just before Christmas O'Hare airport (Chicago) got so completely tied up that people were stuck for days. Same thing happened...
... couldn't the ressource also be used not only for risk response but also for long term risk prevention instead of just waiting idle ? It all depends on the...
This is an interesting thread, re: firefighters and waste. Fires are waste, and the empty chair is waste too. If we're worried about the empty chair as waste...
The airlines consider empty seats as lost revenue and therefore a waste. Hence the reduced capacity of today's routes. Keep the planes near 100% full. The down...
BTW: unused-capacity isn't one of the seven deadly wastes (muda) but several of the wastes (waiting, overproduction, inventory) are caused by lack-of-capacity....
The airlines don't understand queuing theory - except for Southwest, that is. They don't understand that the thrashing caused by driving the use of capacity...
Mary, I doubt airlines are so naïve as to not consider their actions. What firms like United are doing is driving revenue “with the limitations of the line ...
Y'all might find this article interesting: http://www.tocthinkers.com/2008/02/delta-airline-u.html It's about how Delta Airlines have used TOC. TOC knows...
Hi, I'm wary. 'Fighting fires' is one synonym for pulling people from their normal stuff and shoving them at the current urgency. It's also a management...
To me the legacy airlines in the US are a textbook case of how non-lean companies become unable to compete with lean companies over time; a classic example of...
Hello, Mary. On Saturday, February 9, 2008, at 6:06:40 PM, you ... Seems so to me. If any one airline can make money, then so can others. Of course there are...
Mary, My sense is we’re applying simple minded solutions to wickedly complex problems. It’s an example of how “starting over from scratch” is a valid...
ToC explicitly recognizes that sometimes the constraint isn't physical, it's policy. That certainly doesn't mean it's arbitrary... policies can be based on...
