All Entries Tagged With: "stress"
Inventory Makes Work
Lean talks a lot about inventory. A major tenet of Lean is to reduce inventory. Companies that stock up on too much stuff have to maintain that stuff, manage it, and then deal with it when it is no longer useful. This is why companies end up having huge sales at the end of the [...]
Jim Benson | Mar 16, 2010 | Comments 5
WIP and Priorization: Recommended Portions
You’ve been hiking all morning and the mercury is nearing 100. You’re parched. You need water – lots of it. But even in your thirst, you want that water to be manageable. Which holds more water – a lake or a drinking glass? Which will satisfy your thirst – a fire hose or a drinking [...]
Jim Benson | Nov 22, 2009 | Comments 1
