Guerilla Lean: How to Make
Lean Work for You When Your Leadership Doesn’t Get It Guest Presenter: Dan Markovitz March 1, 2012

 Founder of TimeBack Management
consulting company  Faculty member at the Lean Enterprise Institute  Teaches at Ohio State University’s Fisher School of Business & Stanford University Continuing Studies Program  Author of A Factory of One  Email: dan@timebackmanagement.com  Twitter: @timeback Dan Markovitz 2

A Factory of One

- Information - Customer requests
- Ideas - Pizza - Beer - Soda & Red Bull

Ignore the Culture

You don’t need
Permission

What’s the value? What’s the
waste?

Lean Tools: 5S

Lean Tools:
Visual Management

Choice is Paralyzing Ability to
choose & act # of choices (to-do list)

Live in your calendar. (Not
your inbox.)

Lean Tools: Flow

A little experiment. . .

I h ave a cat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

I have a cat
123456789

“ To be effective, every
knowledge worker needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours. ”

Lean Tools:
Standard Work

Footwear Prototype Review Sheet UPPER
Shoelace length Number of eyelets Tongue length Toe reinf. coverage Heel counter height Ankle collar height COMMENTS       MIDSOLE Medial density Lateral density Medial sculpting Forefoot undercut Heel bevel      OUTSOLE Flex grooves  First met. head coverage  Lateral heel design  Trustic density 

Lead by Example Live the
Example

Now, you. daniel markovitz 917
364 1864 www.timebackmanagement.com

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