by Lee Fried, on 26 Dec 2006 08:00 am
The Journey
Quote of the Week
A big lesson I have learned while working with my Sensei over the last three months is the fact that there is no such thing as a simple solution. For months we have been pouring over the data and identifying cause and effects. Going into the work I thought I had it all figured out. The solution was easy: just build a couple of work cells and eliminate handoffs. If it was just that easy it would have already been done. What I thought was simple has turned out to be incredibly complex and my simple solution did nobody and good when it came to the right tactics to get there. We so often assume we have the right solutions when we really only have the right concepts. The solutions come from the details and they are hardly ever simple. Here is the quote:
“For every complex problem there is a simple solution that is wrong.” –Shaw