Daily Management Systems Archives

How Long Does it Take to Develop Trust in Daily Huddles?

When it comes to building trust, I’m really a big proponent of looking at interactions within the team to determine how the system is performing.

How Much Time Does it Take to Implement Huddles in an Organization?

When it comes to implementing Daily Huddles, before you walk, you have to just lift your head up and go, with flow, creating the kind of lifestyle value. In this post, Jeff talks about how implementing daily huddles within an organization doesn’t happen overnight.

What Happens When Leadership is Not in Alignment Around Strategy?

As a leader, if you have more authority, the damage that you can do is so high. So as leaders within an organization, we need to make sure that we have the same principles, and are aligned.

How Yesterday Informs Tomorrow

At Kaas Tailored we use the “today, tomorrow, day-after-tomorrow” thinking model to help us with the idea of time frame. We talk a lot about today, tomorrow, and day-after-tomorrow. But yesterday actually informs it all.

What Elements Should You Include in Your Visual Management System?

How do you know what elements you should make visual? You have to be very selective. The first part is deciding who’s the customer. A lot of times when people make things, it’s for 10 different customers so the whole thing gets watered down. But choosing one customer helps us set clear constraints and contrasts.

How Kaas Tailored Uses Visual Management Tools

In the fall of 2020, Kaas Tailored hosted a series of Zoom calls unpacking our Daily Management System (DMS). Each month we focused on a different element of our DMS, starting with strategy, then discussing daily huddles, then talking about Visual Management Systems (VMS), and ending with Leader Standard Work. In this post, we look […]

How Does an Organization Adopt a Daily Management System?

For a lot of you, this is really being done to you by the corner office and there’s not a lot you can do in the structure you have. Trying to fight the government or the City Hall is probably not so smart. I would just say, “Start where you’re at.”

How Visual Management Systems Help Reduce Waste

One of the advantages of having such a diverse workgroup as we have at our company (with over 14 languages spoken in our factory) is that Kaas has to be thinking of ways that we can allow people to know the truth so that they can move freely without waste.

How Kaas Tailored Runs Daily Huddles

At Kaas Tailored, we have various huddles that meet daily to walk through our “information factory.” There are a variety of tools to choose from to help organize daily huddles, but we use Trello and Zoom. I participate in a huddle every day at 7:30. We all call in from wherever we are in the world. When I say “we all,” I mean all the responsible parties over our entire organization. We could not have successful huddles if we left out a section of our organization. So there are 11 leaders on the call every day.

How to Reduce Waste by 30% in Your Organization

Today we are going to focus on huddles, a main way that we know and show the truth, and how they relate to our values. The premise of today’s talk was supposed to be “how daily huddles can help organizations achieve flow,” but I am not sure that all of you even want flow. The question I think that most organizations need to start with is, “What is flow, and why should I even care?”