At the heart of JIT lies the kanban, the Japanese word for card.

ECONOMIST: Idea

With JIT only Y parts were ordered, and the kanban was sent off as soon as the new order arrived.

ECONOMIST: Idea

Over the last decade, these management practices and values, under the labels of Agile, Scrum and Kanban have been field-tested and proven in thousands of organizations around the world.

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The largest, and most fully developed, body of management expertise for dealing with complexity lies elsewhere, in software development with the practices known variously as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Extreme Programming.

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Folks should learn a bit about modern org leadership, including basic concepts like slack, 20% free time, systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, emergence, Lean-Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Lean Startup, Radical Management, etc.

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