“gemba walk” (lean thinking term) to go to the actual place where value is added + “walkabout” (Australian aborigine) a short period of wandering bush life engaged as an occasional interruption of regular work
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This is a true story. I was given a phone that I’m supposed to be able to hook up to the internet and it is going to cut down on the cost of my cell phone cost and will also make for a much better sound connection - so I am told.
I’ve been at it for 3 hours, made one trip to Best Buy to get a new router and it still will not work with my set-up at home.
Here are some photos of the process:
In their book “Lean Solutions”, Womack and Jones describe the problems of lean thinking as applied to consumption. The problem is, we waste our free time trying to solve problems that should not be problems.
Don’t get me started with the various attempts I have made to make this work. I will not waste one more second of my time to solve this problem. I will not have anyone on my team waste a second of their time either. Here’s a photo of the current state:
The phone is in the box on the bottom, the old router is on top of that and the new router is on the top. Here they sit.
When I have some time, I might hire someone from the “geek squad” to work this out - maybe. I don’t know why I should have to pay for someone else to waste their time on this foolishness.
I thought I had an idea that was easy and going to meet a high impact area on the PICK chart (see below). But in reality, it has been moved to the “Kill” zone (some call this “Kibosh”). It is apparently more difficult than I thought (and more difficult than necessary) and I also believe this is a low impact idea (compared to other things I could be working on.
