Comments on: The Wall Street Journal gets it wrong on 5S

By: Four to-do lists? Try 5S. |

Four to-do lists? Try 5S. | — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:02:42 +0000

[...] I’ve written about before, 5S for the knowledge worker does not mean putting tape outlines around your stapler or setting [...]

By: 5S in Three Bullets |

5S in Three Bullets | — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:01:50 +0000

[...] floor to the office cube without considering its purpose. That leads to ridiculous situations such as the one at Kyocera America, where there’s an internal 5S cop yelling at people for putting sweaters on the backs of [...]

By: What every CEO needs to know about 5S and signal to noise ratio « TimeBack Management

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:17:09 +0000

[...] People commonly think about 5S (a place for everything, and everything in its place) in manufacturing terms: organizing and decluttering the physical space around you. That’s too limiting. It’s also the wrong focus for knowledge workers. In other words: no, it doesn’t matter where you hang your damned sweater. [...]