Project e-Tip of the Week: Tightly Couple Learning with Action
April 22nd, 2004 by HalIt's been awhile since I've published a Project e-Tip. The coming five e-Tips will be follow the themes that I see are shaping the work we do. This first one tightly couple learning with action serves as the basis of working in a lean fashion. Take time to explore what it can mean for you, your team, and your customer.h
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We learned from Toyota not to produce in large batches. Doing so creates wastes in storage, in tracking, in rework, in movement, and in space. Toyota's goal is single-piece flow at the signal of the customer. But why is it so important to do just one at a time. The answer is we want to learn from each action we take. Toyota sees it as the opportunity to test and re-test their hypothesis of how to do work effectively. Here's five ways you can begin adopting the principle tightly couple learning with action on your projects:
Put these to work on your project immediately. Start by discussing this Project e-Tip with your team. You might want to create a contest with them to see who can generate the most ways for coupling learning with action.
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I'd like to hear your experience working with this. Please leave a comment or send me an email.
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April 27th, 2004 at 6:25 am
Let’s discuss it!