The Andon cord (although it doesn’t exist anymore) is one of the key symbols of the Toyota Production System. Pulling this cord enable any worker on the production floor to stop the production process if he sees any issue or concerns regarding safety, process or quality. Most of the readers of my blog are not
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One of the most important and unknown law is Ashby’s law: “The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate”. Or in plain English; if an organization wants to be on top of a complex environment, it needs to be more complex
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Is there a star that drives your team to success? Is there one cowboy that saves the company anytime that you face a problem, what about the perfect leader that can lead a group to victory? All of those are just a few examples that reflect the prevailing mental model that an individual will make
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Based on the book “the origin of wealth” I believe that are three conditions a business need to fulfill to show economic value and be successful. Irreversibility, a business must put energy to transform any input to any output. The result of this effort must be irreversible. If it is reversible, no value created over
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Both Chaos Theory (CT) and Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) used by science to explain how complex systems operate as well as successfully surviving and thriving in a complex environment. In the last three months, I posted how to use those principles as a foundation to a management system that can deal better with complexity. This
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