How Does Strategy Remove Waste?

At Kaas Tailored, when it comes to creating a DMS, the first step in the process is developing your strategy. This means first defining “who we are as a company” and “who we want to become.” Next, it’s important to identify, understand, and choose helpful thinking models so that your team has a shared way of communicating complex ideas that everyone understands. And finally, it’s important to choose the tools you’ll need to get there.

What is Leader Standard Work?

Before diving into Leader Standard Work, let’s quickly define Standard Work. Standard Work is one of the principles of lean manufacturing. Standard Work is the agreed-upon way that a task, process, or system should operate. Within each step, we define the content, sequence, timing, and outcome to be clear on how to achieve repeatable results. So we applied this principle of Standard Work to how we develop leaders and came up with the name Leader Standard Work.

How Many People Should You Have in a Daily Huddle?

The answer is the lowest number of people possible while ensuring work never gets blocked. Another way of saying that is the lowest number of people while ensuring someone can always answer the question, from end-to-end. End-to-end thinking allows you to think of everything from the moment the customer has an idea to the moment the product gets delivered.

How Kaas Tailored Uses A Daily Management System

Strategy comes from the corner office. At Kaas Tailored, strategy is the most important thing when it comes to creating a Daily Management System because it answers the question, “where are we going?” If you don’t know where you’re going, you could be having a lot of meetings about nothing. At Kaas Tailored, it’s my responsibility to not only declare who we want to be when we grow up as a company, but it’s also my job to give some of the key guardrails for decision making.

What is a Daily Management System?

At Kaas Tailored, when we say Daily Management System, we’re talking about the things we do every day, week, month, every quarter, and annually to make sure that we know the truth. The whole goal of this system is to make sure that we are creating value, and that value creation never stops. We call that flow.

How Did Our System Help Kaas Tailored Fulfill the Need for PPE?

There are a couple of things that go into answering this question. The first thing was that because we have been doing tours for so long, the people of Providence knew who we were. They knew if we said we could do something that we believed, that we could do it.  Additionally, we always say […]

How Has This Season of Rapid Change and Uncertainty Reinforced Your Values as a Company?

One of the things we try to do at Kaas Tailored is to ask ourselves, “What are the laws of the universe? What is actually true?” Then align our efforts to those things that are true. One of the laws of the universe that we’ve found to be true is that human beings really enjoy creating value, specifically creating value in a community with feedback so they know when they’ve done good and when they need to improve.

How did your team react as they transitioned from making furniture to making PPE?

It has been probably our toughest season, but we’ve experienced the most growth. There’s an idea that you count as joy, trials that you might experience. This is a trial. I know there’s a bunch of shit that’s going down for all of you. I know there’s a bunch of tough stuff coming our way, your way. I also know that in 10 years, those who actually look back on this with a sweet memory, there’ll be something in this time where we gathered together, and we became stronger people.