{"title": "Finland Lean: The Meme Challenge | Juha Ketola | Negotiator 140", "titleOriginal": "Suomileaniksi meemihaaste | Juha Ketola | Neuvottelija 140", "episodeNumber": "140", "guest": "Juha Ketola", "publishedAt": "2022-06-04", "duration": "42:28", "durationIso": "PT42M28S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctvTB3uRkM", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/192-suomileaniksi-meemihaaste-juha-ketola-neuvottelija-140", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["leadership_governance", "saas_software"], "description": "The lean expert Juha Ketola promised on New Year's Eve to make as many lean memes as his Facebook post collected likes, and by morning the count stood at 185. The episode goes through the memes and uses them to open up the pillars of the Toyota house, continuous improvement, standards, the removal of variation, kanban and one-piece flow. The conversation asks why lean sounds like common sense and yet so few organisations succeed at it, why waste does not appear anywhere in the financial statements, and why incentive bonuses can break the whole system.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. The publisher published no chapter marks for this episode, so none are listed here. No transcript is published either — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track. The guest is a lean consultant and the episode is an argument for the method he sells; no practitioner sceptical of lean is present. The memes referred to throughout are the guest's own and are not reproduced on this page.", "coreTheses": ["Waste is invisible in the accounts by construction, which is why an organisation can be efficient on paper and wasteful in fact.", "Removing variation, not working harder, is what produces the improvement — and it is the part that sounds obvious and is rarely done.", "Incentive bonuses reward local optimisation, which is precisely what a flow system cannot tolerate.", "Lean fails at the point where it is adopted as a set of tools rather than as a standard that someone maintains."], "slug": "ep140-suomi-leaniksi-meemihaaste-juha-ketola", "guestsCanonical": ["Juha Ketola"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/juha-ketola/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep140-suomi-leaniksi-meemihaaste-juha-ketola/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep140-suomi-leaniksi-meemihaaste-juha-ketola/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "3ctvTB3uRkM", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep140-suomi-leaniksi-meemihaaste-juha-ketola/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/tools/ep140-suomi-leaniksi-meemihaaste-juha-ketola/"}