Quotes About Efficiency

Lean production solves the problem of stockouts with a technique called pull.

As Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2

As Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

The ideal goal is to achieve small batches all the way down to single-piece flow along the entire supply chain. Each step in the line pulls the parts it needs from the previous step. This is the famous Toyota just-in-time production method.

As an engineer and later as a manager, I was accustomed to measuring progress by making sure our work proceeded according to plan, was high quality, and cost about what we had projected.

When companies switch to this kind of production, their warehouses immediately shrink, as the amount of just-in-case inventory [called work-in-progress (WIP) inventory] is reduced dramatically. This almost magical shrinkage of WIP is where lean manufacturing gets its name. It's as if the whole supply chain suddenly went on a diet.

En los negocios, una empresa Lean es la eficiencia duradera en acción. El revolucionario método Lean Startup de Eric Ries convertirá su nueva idea de negocio en un resultado final exitoso y duradero. Encontrará innovadoras estrategias y los pasos necesarios para crear y gestionar su propia startup mientras aprende de éxitos y fracasos reales de los demás. Este libro es una lectura obligatoria para emprendedores que se sientan preparados para empezar algo genial.»

As is typically the case in large-batch development, both groups had been willing to sacrifice the team's ability to learn in order to work more "efficiently.

focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work.

When I worked as a programmer, that meant eight straight hours of programming without interruption. That was a good day. In contrast, if I was interrupted with questions, process, or—heaven forbid—meetings, I felt bad.

The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces. This

which of our efforts are value-creating and which are wasteful? This question is at the heart of the lean manufacturing revolution; it is the first question any lean manufacturing adherent is trained to ask. Learning to see waste and then systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries.

Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.

engine of growth

paradoxical Toyota proverb, "Stop production so that production never has to stop." The

In other words, the startup has to find ways to achieve the same amount of validated learning at lower cost or in a shorter time.

our current educational system was designed in the era of mass production and uses large batches extensively.

The growth is all coming from an engine of growth that is working—running efficiently to bring in new customers—not from improvements driven by product development.

book Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones recount

paradoxical Toyota proverb, "Stop production so that production never has to stop.

Anyway, in a world of cheap PCs and fast Internet links, we find pretty consistently that the only really limiting resource is skilled attention.

It may well turn out that one of the most important effects of open source's success will be to teach us that play is the most economically efficient mode of creative work.

Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed — but it is exactly the recipe with which the open-source culture is now clobbering its competition.

Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there.