Thursday, September 29, 2011

Lean Culture- The Toyota Way

The famous tools of the Toyota Production System are all designed around making it easy to see problems, easy to solve problems, and easy to learn from mistakes. Making it easy to learn from mistakes means changing our attitude toward them. That is the lean cultural shift.


Thursday, September 15, 2011

Excellence A Journey...



In today’s competitive economy if we want to be there where we are… we need to run, and every day we have to run faster than the previous day. Only differentiator in this Knowledge economy is Excellence and it plays a key role in our future journey. Unfortunately, today most frequently used and highly misunderstood yet effective world is “Excellence”. The key to pursue excellence is knowledge and; consistency, on which one has to build the culture of the organization. Excellence is more of a culture than an activity. Excellence requires looking at things holistically and creating and balancing value for key Stakeholders. Excellence is to doing something that differentiates us from all others who do the same things we do .Continuous improvement is the hallmark of excellence.