Shingo Conference

If you will be attending the Shingo Prize conference in Nashville in May, please stop by our booth to introduce yourself.

Picture in a Picture

As per your feedback, the Job Instructions template has now been updated to allow you to group shapes so that they are treated as a single shape.

Grouping shapes is particularly useful for:

• Insetting a picture within a picture
• Ensuring that arrows and other shapes stay exactly where you place them

This month's survey... (3 questions)
What are your ideas for how to improve the Systems2win Trial templates?

As a result of last month's feedback, we have already greatly simplified:

• The Help page that comes with every Systems2win template
• The installation process (especially for IT Departments installing on behalf of many users)

We got so many good ideas last month that we decided to extend the same survey for this month.

Please... give us the benefit of your ideas...

A3 Report template

The A3 Problem Solving Method is the foundational core underlying all other Lean concepts.

Systems2win has released a Word template that makes creating an A3 Report fill-in-the-blanks easy...

and a series of supplemental templates for the most common illustrations found within an A3 Report:

• Value Stream Map
• A3 Stick Figure Illustrator
• Layout Diagram
• Root Cause Analysis
• Gantt Summary

A3 Approvals

"Pull-based authority may be the most important JIT element of the entire Toyota system." (John Shook, p120 of Managing to Learn)

Perhaps the single greatest benefit of using the A3 Method is the way it authorizes what Toyota calls kanban democracy or pull-based-authority - where authority is earned by anyone with an idea that is good enough to survive the A3 gauntlet.

Systems2win has devised an Approvals template that systematizes kanban democracy - making pull-based authority transparent and systematic.

Download latest trial templates

Systems2win offers 4 trial templates: Value Stream Mapping Power Tool, Swim Lane Cross Functional Flowchart, Visual Job Instructions, and a Strategic Planning worksheet.

Each working document created using a Systems2win trial template has a 30-day trial period. If you need more time, you can simply start a new working document, or download fresh trial templates - until you reach a maximum of 100 days since your first download - at which time your trial templates will only work after you purchase your license.

Or better yet, why not put all 100+ templates through your test gauntlet? If your company has over $1 million revenues, we also offer the option to purchase the full licensed version with a 30-day money-back guarantee.