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2020

Vision

HINDSIGHT

Seeing Clearly

They say hindsight is 20/20, but that perfectly clear view is about what Lean is and how you can take small steps
useless if you don't make a change based on what you saw towards implementation.
or learned. In this issue of PROfiles, we want to dive deeper into the

This applies to your business perspective, too. How can topic of Lean.
you use hindsight to improve the ways you do things? Eric Ciampoli is a Lean consultant who has observed a
Specifically, we all want to be Lean but making it happen is variety of manufacturing environments. Since an outside
the hard part. It’s likely that you notice things after a project perspective is always more clear and unbiased, Ciampoli
is finished that could have been improved, but do you is able to share insights and make recommendations for
actually take time to change your process so it's better the change that his clients might have overlooked.
next time? Read on for a deeper dive into using hindsight to identify
process changes that can transform your business.
During the recent national conference, one of the presen-
tations was about how to see clearly though a pair of “Lean Amanda Conger
glasses.” Massimo Giliberti provided an interesting overview Executive Director

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