Dietmar Dold, the CEO of Lean Interim and a Sensei of Simpler Consulting, has signed up to built up the Lean Practice within KPMG New Zealand. Dietmar is an accredited trainer of the Lean Certification Program of the Lean Enterprise Research Center of Cardiff University. KPMG will be the only „Big4“ Consulting Company in New […]
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Sep
15
Jul
16
Lean Healthcare is on the rise. We receive more and more requests to implement Lean within Hospitals. It is always great to see how the „simple“ things like kanban two box system can lead to such high client satisfaction. In addition, I realized that some KPIs in some Hospitals really reflect „customer value“ like: Number […]
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Apr
18
Each year we are proud to donate up to 10% of our Earnings towards Organizations like Worldvision. More than a decade ago our CEO, Dietmar Dold, adopted a child from Tanzania via Worldvision and since that time Worldvision is one of our preferred and reliable addresses to see our donations in good hands. In 2011 […]
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Mrz
23
The Lean Community is small and the information flow fast. At least I thought so in the past. Still true is that the group of real lean thinkers is very small and so it is not surprising that this people are very busy and not omnipresent. In the last three month I spend most of […]
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Nov
21
What is Mediation? Mediation is a process in which the parties to a dispute, with the assistance of a dispute resolution practitioner (the mediator), identify the disputed issues, develop options, consider alternatives and endeavour to reach an agreement. Another common wording for Mediation is Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) also know as Assisted or Appropriate Dispute […]
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Nov
5
Who can explain lean thinking – including empowerment of the people (automation), value stream responsibilities, Hoshin Kanri and problem solving – better as Steve Jobs with his own words, not even mentioning any of the lean terms. Just great!
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Nov
1
One of our projects in Scottland came in September 2011 to an end. Our Customer Carron Phoenix improved from a defect level of 4% to 0% in 4 month. The service level increased. These results led to further savings along the value stream. The sales companies saved a few hundred thousand Euros on (safety, buffer […]
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Okt
31
The increasing traffic and global popularity of this site asked for the next step. From today on, posts in English only on lean interim.com. A professional redesign and our contact details of all of our three active regions: Americas, EMA and Asia Pacific. lean-interim.com in English only We started this blog with some articles in German […]
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Sep
19
Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. John Quelch offered a few tips in the Harvard Business Review Dec 14, 2007. But there is more to think about and act on: The focus of your lean activities needs to shift urgently! If you heard a manager blaming „commoditization“ for failing to deliver […]
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Aug
16
Last time I saw Danaher publishing their Danaher Business System was in their financial report 2002. Since then, the secret of the Danaher Business System (DBS) has been kept in secret (see article) . As Danaher is growing continuously it seems to be more and more difficult to control the communication online. Kollmorgen, a Danaher Company, […]
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