Guerilla Lean:

How to Make Lean Work for You

When Your Leadership Doesn’t Get It

Guest Presenter: Dan Markovitz

March 1, 2012
 Founder of TimeBack Management
consulting company
 Faculty member at the Lean
Enterprise Institute
 Teaches at Ohio State University’s
Fisher School of Business & Stanford
University Continuing Studies Program
 Author of A Factory of One
 Email: dan@timebackmanagement.com
 Twitter: @timeback
Dan Markovitz

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A Factory of One
- Information
- Customer requests
- Ideas
- Pizza
- Beer
- Soda & Red Bull
Ignore the Culture
You don’t need
Permission
What’s the value?
What’s the waste?
Lean Tools: 5S
 Lean Tools:
Visual Management
 Choice is Paralyzing

Ability to
choose & act

# of choices
(to-do list)
Live in your calendar.
(Not your inbox.)
Lean Tools: Flow
A little experiment. . .
I h ave a cat

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
I have a cat

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“ To be effective, every knowledge worker
needs to dispose of time in fairly large
chunks. To have small
dribs and drabs of time
at his disposal will not
be sufficient even if the
total is an impressive

”
number of hours.
 Lean Tools:
Standard Work
 Footwear Prototype Review Sheet

UPPER COMMENTS
Shoelace length 
Number of eyelets 
Tongue length 
Toe reinf. coverage 
Heel counter height 
Ankle collar height 

MIDSOLE
Medial density 
Lateral density 
Medial sculpting 
Forefoot undercut 
Heel bevel 

OUTSOLE
Flex grooves 
First met. head coverage 
Lateral heel design 
Trustic density 
Lead by Example
Live the Example
 Now, you.

daniel markovitz
917 364 1864
www.timebackmanagement.com
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May 3 The Outstanding Organization: Achieving Discipline
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The Outstanding
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by Karen Martin

Book launch – May 18, 2012

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