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By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 27, 2010

Venture Capital and Overproduction

One of the 7 Wastes in the Toyota Production System (Lean) is Overproduction. Within the world of entrepreneurship and venture capital, Overproduction

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 26, 2010

Solution in Search of a Problem

Most view innovation a big bang type of exercise - or an "aha" moment that came out of nowhere. Indeed, cogito ergo sum - an invention akin to "out

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 25, 2010

Lean is Easy to Understand, Hard to Do

James Surowiecki [1. source: newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/05/12/080512ta_talk_surowiecki?printable=true] wrote in the New Yorker a piece about

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 24, 2010

Don’t Forget: Unhappy Employees Unhappy Customers

Unhappy Employees Unhappy Customers - it's a simply profound statement. Simple, but profound. Of the two major pillars in Lean Thinking, one is

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 23, 2010

Genchi Genbutsu: Don’t Talk to the Inmates

I write that title with tongue-in-cheek. But, in some cases, corporate leaders act as if employees are inmates and being seen with and talking with

By OpEx Learning Team, Last Updated July 22, 2010

Genchi Genbutsu: Leaders Develop Other Leaders

It's often said that Toyota builds people, then it builds cars. To this end, it's important to consider how Genchi Genbutsu as a principle helps us to