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Operation Efficiency

What Can We Stop Doing? The Turnaround Question That Works

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series The Brick that Saves It's Self

The fastest path to relief isn’t adding more work, it’s stopping the right work. LEGO’s turnaround started with one simple question: what can we stop doing? Steal a 30-minute Stop-Doing Huddle agenda to cut low-value reports, meetings, and approvals and protect the time you reclaim.

October 9, 2025 David Carneal
Process Improvement

Complexity Is a Tax: Find Your 13,000 Parts

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series The Brick that Saves It's Self

Complexity doesn’t show up as a single problem. It shows up as thousands of tiny choices, templates, exceptions, and workarounds. LEGO learned the hard way that uncontrolled variation turns into a tax on your people, your systems, and your supply chain. This post gives you a fast ‘13,000 Parts Audit’ to find the mess and remove one version that’s slowing everything down.

October 1, 2025 David Carneal

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