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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Unfortunately, companies in the lean community don’t seem to take much note of, or try to copy these experiments, probably because the benefits aren’t reflected on the income statement or balance sheet. But the reduction in office hours can be the stimulus for creative thinking about how to increase productivity and efficiency.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

Instead of local optimization, we need global optimization: How can we decrease the time of all the various feedback loops ? The biggest problem I see in feedback loops is when managers think in resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency. Flow Efficiency Changes the Culture. Managers make decisions faster.

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