Worth your time.

A YouTube video of a presentation by Don Reinertsen on Second Generation Lean Product Development Flow. This talk is highly technical, but full of interesting stuff, ranging from queue theory, to cost of delay, to explaining why variation, uncertainty and asymmetric payoffs are critical to the economics of innovation. A key takeaway is the negative impact of high utilisation rates on flow.

Christoph Roser is a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Science. His website covers a wide variety of lean manufacturing tools and techniques, based on decades of experience implementing and teaching lean manufacturing - including five years working at and researching for Toyota in Japan.

A great first book for people wanting to understand the essence of what makes a continuous improvement culture.

Toyota, Alcoa, Pratt & Whitney, US Hospitals and the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Power Program would seem to have very little in common. Steven Spear demonstrates how each of these organizations achieves faster, more sustained rates of improvement than any of their competitors and finds common elements that can be applied to any organisation.

Steven J. Spear is a five-time winner of the Shingo Prize and recipient of the McKinsey Award, a senior lecturer at MIT and former assistant professor at Harvard. A senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review and The New York Times

Hear some of our perspectives on 'unlocking excellence' in your organisation - Cinc's Peter Campbell being interviewed on Ishan Galapathy's 'Excellence Unlocked' podcast.

"Dr. Peter Campbell, an expert in unlocking excellence, shares insights on lean manufacturing, automation, and the challenges of implementing operational excellence. He discusses the impact of Japanese lean in a German company (Bosch), the importance of understanding the ‘why’ in automation, and the trends in Australian manufacturing. Peter also highlights the difficulty of starting and embedding improvement programs and the key factors for successful change.

He discusses the challenges of applying manufacturing principles to the service industry and the importance of productivity in sustaining Australian manufacturing"