IGLC-14: Production Planning and Control
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IGLC-14: Production Planning and Control
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IGLC-14: Production Planning and Control
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IGLC-14: Production System Design
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IGLC-14: Production System Design
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IGLC-14: Production System Design
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IGLC-14: Production System Design
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am sitting in the back of the room at a hotel in Santiago, Chile while authors of peer-reviewed IGLC papers get their 15-20 minutes speaking about their papers. I’ll do my best to catch the essence of each [...]
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The International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-14, is meeting in Santiago, Chile, July 25 – 27, 2006. The topics are sure to reshape current practice.
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The lean construction community goes to Chile. Join us!
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The Last Planner System® is routinely delivering projects on time and on budget. Want to know how? That will have to wait for another posting. But for today, I’ll introduce you to Glenn Ballard and Greg Howell, the creators of the Last Planner System. They authored a 13-page paper for IGLC-11 [...]
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In the summer of 2003 three authors presented their thoughts on the nature of the breakdown delivering projects in the construction industry. Lauri Koskela took the lead writing with Glenn Ballard and Greg Howell. The authors analyze the current situation for making change, present the conventional solutions, propose a systemic approach, and outline [...]
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Making Do: The Eighth Category of Waste, by Lauri Koskela.
I’ve written about the eighth waste in my posting introducing Two Great Wastes™. A number of people want to update Taiichi Ohno’s taxonomy of materiel waste. Lauri Koskela is the most recent. Lauri’s eighth waste is the most novel. He claims we [...]
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The Taiichi Ohno 7 wastes of production are a simple and elegant way to focus improvement actions in production process settings. The 7 wastes are taught to teams who use them as a way to observe, assess, and improve process to provide more value. The 7-item taxonomy has been so successful that it [...]
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I’ve been living in the dissonance of the worlds of project management and enlightened company management. You only need to read a story here and there in Fast Company or Business 2.0 to see that we are setting out to manage our companies in a different way than we attempt to manage our AEC [...]
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This past week two papers I co-authored were presented at the 12th Annual International Group for Lean Construction in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greg Howell and I authored the papers with some help from colleagues Lauri Koskela, John Draper, and Joe Ely. I’ll introduce the papers in postings on Aug 9 and 10. In [...]
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? Guy Kawasaki wrote, "Less is the new more." Easy to learn: symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability. Very valuable to do. Step 1: Read Matt's book!! just 140 keystrokes.
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