Lean Made Simple: Transform Your Business & Life One Step At A Time!

Lean Legends | Norm O’Hara | Springfree Trampolines

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Norm O’Hara is the General Manager of a sporting equipment factory based in Southern China. He’s also a lean manufacturing enthusiast who’s excited to share the improvements he and his team are making on their journey toward organizational excellence.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Treating improvement videos as a product
  • Cultural challenges of applying lean in China
  • (And how to overcome them)
  • The power of building a physical bridge between two factories
  • Reducing the number of people moving items around from 40 to 4
  • And his desire to run a “world-class business”

    • Check it out!

    Links:

    • Playlist with 119 improvement videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzZiVpXQCLUmIUeg5Tx4P3BbBtfIfRsUt
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/normohara?originalSubdomain=cn
    • Book a Lean Made Simple Tour: https://www.leanmadesimple.com/book-a-tour
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