In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Chris Roser, a worldwide renowned expert for lean production; Toyota, McKinsey, and Bosch Alumni, and professor for Production Management at the Karlsruhe University of applied sciences.. Drawing on decades of experience in manufacturing, supply chain management, bottleneck detection, and Lean research, Chris explains why improvement fails without standard work.

🔻 Why Toyota and BMW get dramatically more improvement ideas from frontline workers than most Western companies.

🔻 How supervisors use regular checklists to make improvement part of daily work instead of an extra task

🔻 Why the smallest improvement ideas often create the biggest long-term advantage when companies actually pick them up

🔻 The critical difference between work standards, standard work, SOPs, and leader standard work

🔻 Why copying Toyota tool-for-tool usually fails, and what companies should do instead

🔻 Why improvement disappears when it is not captured and sustained through work standards

🔗 Connect with Chris Roser on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-roser-allaboutlean/

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🎙 Hosted by Keith Norris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithnorris/