Eliminating wasteful accounting transactions is the most difficult part of lean accounting for us accountants. After all transactions are our comfort blanket, and some of the first things we do when learning accounting are “T” accounts – transactions.
Posted by Ross Maynard on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 read more...
I’ve been rereading “The Toyota Way Fieldbook” and am struck by the way the authors close the book. For me, their words truly sum up the difficulties that lean faces in Western businesses. Their words speak for themselves:
Posted by Ross Maynard on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 read more...
Despite the title of this blog, I actually think that it is only rarely possible to create a truly balanced level schedule of customer demand in service situations. The nature of service is such that being available when your consumers want or need your service is something which adds considerable value.
Nevertheless, service managers can do a great deal to understand and, at least, “smooth” demand. To do that you need to understand the four types of demand in service processes:
Posted by Ross Maynard on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 read more...
I attended the Russian Lean Forum in Moscow this week organised by Orgprom. Brian Maskell and I delivered a session on lean accounting to 70 interested Russians from a wider range of businesses, and we participated in several of other sessions. Over 200 people attended the forum from 100 companies - there were only three foreigners there including Brian and I !.
Posted by Ross Maynard on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 read more...