Implementing Standardized Work

This book, which is the fifth of series dedicated to Standardized Work, focuses on operator training and auditing. The whole process of deploying Standardized Work is a pure waste if it does not inclu

This book, the fourth in a series dedicated to Standardized Work, focuses on process improvement. It begins by explaining that standardization and improvement are the two faces of the same coin. They

The first book in The One-Day Expert series detailed the initial steps that Thomas, a young, high-potential plant manager in an industrial group, took to assess his plant’s situation through measureme

This book, the first in The One Day Expert series dedicated to Standardized Work, is about operator performance measurement. Implementing Standardized Work: Measuring Operators’ Performance explains h

This field guide can used right on on the gemba (work area) for implementing and documenting standardized work. It will contain not only the "future state" of standardized work, but cricuail step-by-s

While it is a given that most Lean companies adopt methods to standardize cyclical activities, they often fail to apply the same rigor to noncyclical work, believing that it cannot be measured. Standa

A collection of the author's experiences implemening work standardization in 150 companies such as: Volvo, Cadbury Rolls Royce, Twinings, Oriflame, Whirlpool, Electrolux, and Colgate. Managers intuiti

"By going through the process of creating standardized work that Tim and Jeff have outlined in this book, you can go from having process knowledge that is only held by two or three people, to being a

While organizational interest in diversity continues to grow, many programs that support diversity initiatives are faltering. As a consequence, the valuing diversity movement now stands at an importan

This book explains how to measure the performance of operators quickly and simply, how to identify the most efficient operators, and how to monitor their improvement over time. The method described ca

“Every student deserves a great teacher, not by chance, but by design” — Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, & John HattieWhat if someone slipped you a piece of paper listing the literacy practices that ensure students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of learning for a year spent in school? Would you keep the paper or throw it away?We think you’d keep it. And that’s precisely why acclaimed educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Fry, and John Hattie wrote Visible Learning for Literacy. They know teachers will want to apply Hattie’s head-turning synthesis of more than 15 years of research involving millions of students, which he used to identify the instructional routines that have the biggest impact on student learning. These practices are “visible” for teachers and students to see, because their purpose has been made clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student’s learning, and their effect is tangible. Yes, the “aha” moments made visible by design. W