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Lean Diary #02

The highlight of this week was a Kaikaku-tour to the Douwe Egberts Factory in Joure (NL), where we witnessed an example of an ideal steering and accountability structure based on perfectly aligned KPI’s.

I continued with facilitated 2 more Kaizen workshops where each participant was coached to come up with one Kaizen to reduce at least one of the 8 wastes on their own workstation.

Thirdly, after reading a Dutch book about social media in business environments, I asked a question concerning our Lean implementation in Linked-in groups I participate and our company’s internal social media network, to experiment with knowledge gathering for specific actions using Social Media.

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Lean Diary #01