Creating a Lean Culture, 3rd Edition

130 ◾ Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions

engraved at a sign shop; the whole thing was impressive to see). He ordered

copies for each of the value streams in his plant and decreed that all value

stream leaders begin using them immediately. (It is worth noting that his

background included significant responsibilities in national brand consumer

goods production in multiple plants around the country. In this prior experi-

ence, everything was standardized across sites.)

Early Boards as Experiments

As it turned out, the design of the board’s daily task accountability matrix

was a winner, duplicated elsewhere. The rest of the board was very much

a first draft, though cosmetically pleasing. Most of it has been revised.

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