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The Lean Machine
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The Lean Machine

by Dantar P. OOSTERWAL
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 42m
English
AMACOM
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CHAPTER 15

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Oobeya

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.

W. Edwards Deming

Although each of the individual tools we discovered and implemented improved the process incrementally, their effectiveness was diminished because they operated in relative isolation. The biggest improvement came in connecting the pieces. As the pieces of the system came together, the improvement was greater than the individual parts.

Collaboration Using the Oobeya Process

Allen Ward had introduced Takashi Tanaka to me about a year after we started working together. Allen had met Takashi during one of his research trips ...

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ISBN: 9780814413784