Category: Kanban

In today’s fast-paced business world, there is no shortcut for effective project management, and to say that it’s crucial for success would be an understatement. It’s for this reason that there are multiple business methodologies on the market that organizations, large and small, are turning to in order to shore up business practices […]

Kanban finds its origins in Toyota, developed as a means to achieve equal production and productivity that the 1940s American automotive industry was achieving. While Toyota didn’t become a force to be reckoned with overnight, the use of the first Kanban cards set the stage for a manufacturing revolution. Beyond manufacturing, Kanban is […]

Kanban makes for a wonderful complementary tool in your Agile workflows. If you’re looking to optimize your software delivery workflow, then looking at a visual means of organization is a great way of keeping things centered on continuous flow. Further, it fits right into the somewhat looser principles around Agile, which focus primarily […]

Are you making use of digital Kanban boards? Remote work is on the rise, and as such, there is a definite need to adapt and change workflows to better suit working conditions. You can’t readily pull out a physical Kanban board in a Zoom call, so what do you do? Thankfully, there is […]

ZARA changes its clothing designs every two weeks, offering 11,000 distinct garments annually. In comparison, competitors change their designs every three or four months and produce 3-4,000 distinct pieces. This is fast fashion: the business model of replicating high-fashion, luxury-brand pieces quickly and cheaply, making them available to customers while the trend and […]

Kanban is a tool used in Lean Manufacturing to visually manage the workflow through your processes. It is based on the concept of a pull system where things are only replaced as they are consumed. 

Does your organization use a pull or push system to allow your manufacturing function to meet your customers’ demand for your products? Let’s learn why a pull system might be a better approach for optimizing your organization.

The strategy of continuously improving your organizational processes by setting your goals, identifying deviations from those goals, and then taking appropriate actions to adjust your processes to close the gaps.

Have you ever had to shut down your manufacturing line because major components haven’t arrived from your supplier? Have you ever had to rent extra warehouses for your finished goods? Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing would prevent that from happening. Let’s see how that works.

When we leave the shop floor and enter the back office, we might think that people’s desks are where they work. We’d be wrong. Their workbench, their tooling, their line … is in their heads. This means that most knowledge work (information technology [IT], legal, management, product design, finance) is invisible. My colleague Tonianne tells […]

Kanban is a Japanese word that translates into “signboard” or “billboard,” and is a tool developed in Lean manufacturing but applied to any process. It is a visual scheduling system that allows a team – for any process – to know what needs to be done, what is being done and what has been done. Kanban can […]