Lexicon to Leanism3
| Symbol/Term/Acronym | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A3 Report | A one-page report providing the information needed to make decisions and progress |
| Abduction | Optimistic process of believing that a reasonable hypothesis best fits limited data while holding skepticism hostage |
| Andon (行灯) | A system of signals that in-from when to stop and correct the reproduction process |
| AM | Analogy Making |
| B/ARE | Biologically leaning toward adaptation, regeneration and energization |
| BOT or Bought | Being beyond what is Ontologically Teleological, which is leaning toward a state of universalized perfection |
| C/ARE | Cognitively leaning toward adaptation, regeneration and energization |
| CEO | Chief Extension Officer |
| CFO | Chief Function Officer |
| CMO | Chief Meaning Officer |
| COO | Chief Optimization Officer |
| CORE | Critical to Ontological Realization |
| Customers | People who bought or may purchase goods and/or services |
| Deduction | Process of reaching specific conclusions from general theories about how much money you will make |
| Douki-seisan (同気生産) | Perpetual synchronization with the customer |
| EMOs | Emotional Meta-Ought Factors functioning as a type of mental Andon or Kanban |
| FSM | Flying Spaghetti Monster® |
| Gemba (現場) or Genba Kanri | The Lean term of Japanese origin meaning the center of the organization where the CEO resides |
| Genchi Genbutsu (現地現物) | The Lean term of Japanese origin directing managers away from the board room toward the source of all production |
| Hansei (反省) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning self-reflection, is part of the Kaizen practice of continuous improvement done by looking back and thinking about how a process or personal shortcoming can be improved |
| HQ | Head Quarters and/or House of Quality |
| House of Quality (舎) | Place where meaning gets reproduced |
| Hōshin Kanri (方針管理) | A Lean term of Japanese origin meaning Strategy Deployment, or more colloquially “Compass-Guided Management,” and is further symbolized by the oh-hat Ô |
| I/C/ARE | Intentionally, cognitively leaning toward adaptation, regeneration and energization |
| IB or | Intuition Bracket |
| ID Kata | Inference - Deduction Kata using the 3WH interrogatories |
| IDEO | Information, Innovation and Design Officer |
| Ideology | A system of ideas and ideals, especially one formulated by the IDEO as the basis of an organization’s true-north value theory |
| Induction | Process of creating a general theory from specific, robust data |
| Jidoka (自働化) | The Lean term of Japanese origin meaning the process of error correction within certain degrees of significance with a human touch of knowledge and intelligence, which is the measure of quality for any Lean system of management |
| Kaikaku (改革) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning radical, revolutionary improvement of a value stream to quickly create more value with less waste; sometimes called kakushin |
| Kaizen (改善) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning processually systemic continual improvement across an organization’s entire true-north value stream |
| Kanban (看板) | Lean term of Japanese origin for a centralized source of information, such as EMOs inside an HQ |
| Kata (型 or形) | Lean term of Japanese origin for the four-step 3WH routine by which an organization leanly adapts, reproduces and energizes to continuously increase its Ontological Realization |
| Kinobi (機能美) | Term of Japanese origin used in Leanism meaning that aesthetics equate with utility and true-north value |
| Lean or “/” (厘) | Formal business subject derived from studying the Toyota Production System; that which is best tuned for fitness; the geographical direction of “True-North Value” and all profit |
| /ARE | Leaning toward adaptation, regeneration and energization activities to perform living processes |
| /6σ | Lean Six Sigma, or Pragmatic Idealism |
| /σ∞ | The Pursuit of Perfection in Lean Business Philosophy |
| Life (命) | A process performing /ARE activities; or more commonly, one having the power to intrinsically reproduce its ontology across generations in some way, shape or form by either teleologically or teleonomically adapting and energizing itself within the OM |
| ME | Matter and Energy, Money & Economics, and/or Maximally Existing |
| ME/ARE | Maximally Existing by leaning toward adaptation, regeneration and energization |
| Meme | A human behavior caused by conceptual SUDS forming cultural, economic, legal and commercial SLOTS that pass from one regeneration to the next |
| MO | Meta-Ontological factor (or a Modus Operandi), which is a higher order Of |
| Mottainai (もったいない) | Buddhist and Shinto term meaning regret for any form of waste |
| Muda (無駄) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning waste that adds no true-north value |
| Mura (斑) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning waste from unproductive variance |
| Muri (無理) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning waste from overburdening |
| MVP | Lean philosophical initialism for, “Meaning, Value, Price,” explaining how people find personal “Meaning” in the normative “Value” of products and/or services that results in the real “Prices” that people pay for what they want to purchase |
| NOT or Nought | Not Ontologically Teleological |
| NPW | “Nissan Production Way,” which is a form of Lean deployed by the Nissan Motor Group |
| Ô | Lean symbol for Hōshin Kanri meaning, “Compass-Guided Management,” or more formally “Strategy Deployment” |
| OCD | Ought Cognitive Dissonance, which is the conundrum created by the apparent paradox of the OT |
| OFs | Ontologically Teleological factors of customers’ lives and existences |
| OM | Ontological Medium |
| Ontology | The study or definition of what is versus what is not |
| OR | Ontological Realization, which is the binary either/or proposition of further being |
| OT or Ought | The Ontological Teleology, or the seemingly circular goal of being bought in an infinite universe |
| PAOS | Initialism for “Products And/Or Services,” (sounds like “pay us,” as in what business ultimately want in exchange); “Paos” is also an ancient city in central Greece (37°51′N, 21°59′E) with a triangular perimeter and natural spring in its north-east quadrant |
| People | Charismatic megafauna, otherwise known as human beings |
| Poka-Yoke (ポカヨケ) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning that which helps avoid inadvertent mistakes |
| Problem | Either an Opportunity for or Threat to people’s standard of existence, which requires a set of values, methods, techniques, activities, products and/or services to achieve or resolve |
| PSR | Principle of Sufficient Reason states that everything has another cause to an ultimate self-causing cause, or sui generis |
| R | Regeneration, or the Rubicon across adaptation and energization leading to who customers are |
| RCA | Root Cause Analysis, which is equivalent to the PSR when taken to its logical extreme, is generally limited to five whys within Lean |
| Shu-ha-ri (守破離) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning: (1) learn, (2) detach, and (3) transcend in the process of mastering Lean Business Philosophy |
| Σ or σ | Sigma, sum or standard deviation |
| 6σ | Six Sigma |
| SLOTS | Supervening Levels of Ontological Teleological Sophistication |
| SOOT | Self-Organizing Ontological Teleology |
| Sonchō (尊重) | Lean term of Japanese origin meaning “Respect for People” |
| SUDS | Strategically Unique Degrees of Sophistication |
| Supervenience | Reciprocally dependent levels of self-organized sophistication |
| SW/OT | Binary business analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses, OPPs and Threats as taught in business school |
| Takt Time | Lean term of German origin meaning the pace of demand for true-north value |
| Teleology | Intentional, goal-oriented purpose directed by an organization and consumers |
| Teleonomy | Unintentional, goal-oriented purpose directed by the OT |
| Three WH or 3WH | The who, why, what and how of meaningfully making money, which is a four word analysis of true-north value |
| TPS | Toyota Production System (Toyota Seisan Houshiki), also referred to as Total Quality Management (TQM) |
| True-North | Lean terminology for the metaphorical direction and source of all true value and reasonable explanations; the geographical point around which the earth circles while moving forward in time |
| Truth | Portmanteau of True and North; a factual assertion combined with an explanation for it that has the highest degree of informed agreement among all possible alternatives |
| WE/ARE | Wholly Existing (or Will to Exist) by leaning toward adaptation, regeneration and energization |
| U2 Monetary Value Framework | Measures all monetary value by the degree of Uniqueness and Usefulness of any given PAOS |
| U/ARE | Universally leaning toward adaptation, regeneration and energization |
| U/P | The metaphorical direction of universal and process truth-values; the universe and utility divided by people as units of true-north value; and the foundation for the U/People acronym |
| U/People | Pronounced, “You lean toward people,” this business acronym stands for, “Uniquely/Profitably, Extending and Optimizing People’s Lives and Existences,” which is the ideal business activity |
| UPP values | Universal, Process and Personal degrees of true-north value |
| Universe | Everything that is, or may be and you just don’t know it yet |
| U/Sociality | The theory of Eusociality regarding the co-dependent Ontological Realization of all beings |
| Value Stream | Lean terminology for the flow of true-north value through all universal processes toward who, why, what, and how customers are; A chapter of Leanism |