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<title>Graham Ross - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Graham Ross, the Managing Director of Lean kaizen Ltd, is a highly experienced consultant /facilitator, who specialises in teaching "Lean thinking" within Public Sector Organisations.]]></description>
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<title>5 Benefits to You of a Lean Approach</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would like to tell you about five big benefits you will receive from adopting a Lean approach in your Organisation.These benefits are well within your grasp with some time and effort on your part. The Lean approach is basically very simple if you are willing to learn.]]></description>
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<title>Lean Tools: The Kaizen Newspaper</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:59:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I would like to take you through a useful Lean Tool called the Kaizen Newspaper. Just like a real newspaper, it is a great way to summarise the main headlines of the activities that are of interest for your work area.The newspaper is a visual management tool for detailing and grouping a set of improvement actions that you intend to make.]]></description>
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<title>Lean Thinking: No Standards No Improvement</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many people associate the word Standard with something that is monotonous and frankly quite dull. Kaizen is in the business of firstly setting standards and then continually striving to improve on those standards Standards are not something that should be chiselled into granite and rolled out and dusted down when the auditors are in town (that was almost a poem) It was Taicchii Ohno, the kaizen guru of the Toyota Motor Company who stated "Where there is no standard there can be no kaizen". In other words if we don't have a consistent approach to how we do...]]></description>
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<title>Change Management, Getting Started</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My definition of a Change Management is as follows: "Change Management is about someone who is passionate and technically capable of leading Continuous Improvement in Organisations, by inspiring people to problem solve and implement sustainable solutions." To me 90% of Change Management is about how you work with people at all levels within the Organisation. I say levels because in reality they do exist.]]></description>
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<title>Lean Thinking: Use a Shadow Board and Save on Searching Time</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I first came across the idea of a shadow board when I was visiting a Plant in the USA as part of a Lean Tour. The idea is very simple. Basically instead of having the tools you need to do the job lying about all over the place, they are organised in a way that makes them easy to access and put back when you are finished wit them.]]></description>
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<title>5 S's System - Organise Your Computer For Greater Productivity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I am a great believer in self help. As you may already know, 5 S's is a methodology for creating a high performance workplace that is free of clutter and has "a place for everything and everything in its place.  The 5 S's are Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Systems, & Sustain.]]></description>
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<title>Lean Training - Nine Handy Tips to Help Sustain Your 5S System</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:24:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You may be frustrated with your lack of progress on sustaining your 5S System. Here are nine handy tips to help you sustain the gains made longer term. Tip #1 Connect 5S to the Bottom Line Results...]]></description>
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<title>Lean Training, Five Tips to Sustain the 5S System</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:22:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here are five useful tips that I use with clients like you, to help make your 5S Workplace Organisation efforts sticky. I love the 5S technique. It is one of my favourite Continuous Improvement methodologies.]]></description>
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<title>5S Work Place Organization - What is It?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 16:01:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you find yourself always having to search for items?  5S is a lean technique that you can use to overcome this difficulty, and help boost your productivity. So what is 5S and what is all about?]]></description>
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<title>Improve Your Work Life - Nine Simple Ways to Help You Do It</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 09:52:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Desperate maladies require desperate remedies"     French Proverb    There are times when we have so much to do, that work is no longer fun.  We start to feel a bit panicky and desperate inside.   We all get these feelings from time to time.]]></description>
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