Banish Muda. Begin Transformation.

History have always fascinated me since childhood. The idea that what we are today has something to do with the events that happened in the past - either by choice, or accident, makes for an interesting discussion.

Our family traveled to Cebu last month, making sure that Bantayan Island is our t...

The kanban or signal board, is one of the first attempts in MIESCOR, if not, the first of its kind to be part of the early solution our process improvement team have agreed to use to visually track the data of the design engineering outputs - the substation and transmissions lines drawing design...

The road to enacting change isn't an easy one - it's like a never-ending maze to start with.

On this memorable photo during one of the four Ishikawa (fishbone) root-cause analysis sessions, our services team, together with the engineering heads, had to go deeper identifying, validating the actua...

When we were still kids, our parents always tell us to fix our bed, toys - keep it tidy and clean. In Lean management, this idea is as important as it can ever be with so many aspects in life and business it can be applied with surprising results unimaginable. Let's explore 5S today.

The 5S stan...

In early 2019, I got a copy of the book "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari. It is perhaps one of the most influential books of the 21st century and is certainly included in my top 5 list of most favorite books of all time.

In Sapiens, the author explores the nuances created by the evolution, develop...

"Kaizen" or change for the better, is
an essential part of the Toyota Production System (TPS), long before it's derivative, Lean, became famous around the world.

The primary goal of Kaizen is to enable "flow" in any business processes in delivering value (products and services) to the end rece...

In a previous post, we explored the Lean house with customer centric approach where customers tumble down the rabbit hole of unhappy customers. This is a fact with the organization's that still follow the classical management approach.

Be reminded however that those that adopt classical manageme...

What can you make out of the illustration above other than the ubiquitous yellow smiley emoticon?

This illustration was designed at a very poignant time during my tenure at the Meralco Industrial Engineering Services Corporation (MIESCOR). During those years from 2015 to 2019, I have come up wit...

In late October 2019, I had attended the Rural Development and Food Security Forum held at the Asian Development Bank HQ in the Philippines.

It was an insightful global forum that saw attendees from many parts of the world including farmers from numerous countries such as Sri Lanka, Mongolia, B...