Just-in-Time Cafe
Just-in-Time Cafe
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Just-in-Time Cafe
Coming Up
Lean & Time Studies: Leverage for Engaged Team Performance
Do you struggle with creating accurate staffing models—determining realistic performance targets—identifying which processes to prioritize for improvement efforts? There’s a comprehensive data-driven answer to all those challenges.
If you’ve been doing Lean for a while, you’ve likely heard about “Standard Work” but have you measured “Standard Time”? In addition to knowing the right way to do a process or activity, it’s also really important to know how long that task should take. You can use that data for staffing models, performance accountability, and targeting processes to invest in improvement.
Enter… the time study! Come join Dodd Starbird, Author of The Joy of Lean and Building Engaged Team Performance, as he demonstrates a system and approach that can help your team collect time study data, analyze it, and put it to work for your organization.
See you at the cafe Thursday, October 17th!
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
Meet
Tracy O'Rourke
Two things about my work intrigue me. I love helping clients solve their culture puzzle. What’s working well? What’s not? What norms hold the current culture in place? How can we understand the root causes behind why the culture is the way it is? Then we work to build an intentional culture.
At the individual level, I love the “Aha” moment when people realize that this stuff works. I love it when they’re hungry to apply the concepts even more. These are my true rewards.
Meet
Elisabeth Swan
I’m a translator. I love taking complicated topics and deciphering them, so they make sense to myself and everyone around me. I love collaborating with clients and colleagues to build a problem-solving culture together. I get a huge sense of satisfaction working with others to overcome seemingly intractable organizational barriers.
I get a kick out of sharing what I’ve learned so the people I work with don’t have to struggle quite so much for so long or at least not as much as I did. I love the moment when a student no longer needs me.
“I haven’t failed. I just found 10,000 ways that didn’t work.” – Thomas Edison
