Company Quote by Masaaki Imai

Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

— Masaaki Imai

“In the lean enterprise, Sales and Production Scheduling are core members of the product team, in a position to plan the sales campaign as…

— James P. Womack

“Systemization If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing. —W. EDWARDS DEMING, PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT EXPERT…

— Josh Kaufman

“Toyota Production System—which in the United States would become known as “lean manufacturing”—relied on pushing decision making to the lowest possible level. Workers on…

— Charles Duhigg

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity,…

— Fred Brooks

Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are…

— Hilary Mason

Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the…

— Elizabeth Diller

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

“Build great metrics. Metrics show how the machine is working by providing numbers and setting off alert lights in a dashboard. Metrics are an…

— Ray Dalio

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

— Jaron Lanier

“Moreover, data science (and business in general) is not so worried about statistical significance, but more concerned with optimizing overall effort and results.”

— Peter Bruce

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business…

— John Novak