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More articles by Dr. Klaus Leopold. Page 12 of 16.
With the article “Achieving continuous improvement through Kanban” I kicked-off a series of blog posts to explain my experience of how you might succeed with seeding a culture of continuous improvement in your organization. As you probably know, I am totally no fan of recipes and thus, it might come
Read articleI am often asked, “how do you create the right motivation for real organizational change?” Just because you’re using a kanban system does not automatically ensure your company will see all the success it is looking for or that you can make the improvements you seek in productivity. What is the missi
Read articleThe idea of the pre-queue came about three years ago in a system design workshop with a Swiss financial services company as we were contemplating the input queue and its dimensions. We thought a weekly queue replenishment would be good and set the length of the queue to 8 as the staff assumed that t
Read articleI feel very honored to be nominated for this year’s Brickell Key Award. The award is named after the Brickell Key island near Miami where our community first gathered for the Lean and Kanban Conference in May 2009. According to the organizers, the award highlights excellence in our community honorin
Read articleOnly in the last two month alone I have supervised the design of 13 different kanban systems in different companies. After two or three days of work the initial kanban system is hanging on the wall and everyone is standing proudly in front of it. Now and again I hear statements like: “I really hope
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Read articleWhich forms of management are necessary to nurture a culture of continuous improvement? Modern (change) management is mainly about A careful awareness of what is actually happening in an organization, Professional communication, both internally and externally, i.e. with all stakeholders above and be
Read articleMy blogpost, “Do I have to do that? Can I do that? Do I want to do that?” was about these three questions asked by all involved in a change process. Not surprisingly the answers are rarely purely rational in nature but also involve emotions to a great extent. That is simply the ways things […]
Read articleAs I already mentioned in the blog post “Do I have to do that? Can I do that? Do I want to do that?” organizational change is inseparably linked to personal emotions. These emotions should be regarded as the elixir of life for any change. They release energy, they attribute meaning, they force progr
Read articleThe world is a model richer: Kanban flight levels. I really do not believe that it has been waiting with bated breath for someone to summarise Kanban applications but it has been shown that the model can make the life of a Kanban proponent a little easier. You can find a more detailed explanation of
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