Santa & Lean

Santa & LEAN10 Questions about Santa’s Process

to help us think about LEAN

Created by Tom Curtis 2011Blog: www.onimproving.blogspot.comPresentations: on www.slideshare.net/onimproving Email: ideamerchants@gmail.comTwitter: @onimproving

What follows is 10 questions to help us think about Santa’s annual journey and process in Lean terms. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Question 1:

How does Santa

facilitate FLOW?

LEAN

Question 2:

How does Santa create

VALUE?LEAN

Question 3:

How might Santa MISTAKE-PROOF

his process?

LEAN

Question 4:

How has Santa

SMEDed his process?

LEAN

Question 5:

What is Santa’s

TAKT for deliveries?

LEAN

Question 6:

What might Santa’s STANDARD for a

delivery be?

LEAN

Question 7:

How does Santa’s team

Build-in-Quality?

LEAN

Question 8:

What WASTE

might Santa eliminate?

LEAN

Question 9:

How might Santa

practice KAIZEN?

LEAN

Question 10:What would it

be like to GEMBA

WALK with Santa?

LEAN

The Man visits a lot of GEMBAs!