Japan's Public Works Revolution

 Reengineering Public Works Management at a Japanese Government Ministry

In this white paper, Yuji Kishira, Chief Operating Officer of Being Corporaton of Japan discusses the project management methodology currently sweeping through government and the public construction industry in the land of the rising sun.

 Win-Win-WinPublicWork.pdf

East Meets West

Combining State of the Art Project Management with Japanese Best Practices

Produces a Project Management Revolution in Japan

In this white paper, Yuji Kishira, Chief Operating Officer of Being Corporation of Japan discusses how Japanese companies are combining Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) with Japanese shop floor best practices and Japanese culture.  This is literally creating a project management revolution in Japan.  Beginning in the public works construction industry, this powerful combination is now spreading across all types of industry and government.  Mr. Kishira’s books have become business best-sellers, and Being’s client list, once limited to construction, now includes household names like Toyota, Nissan, Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, and many, many more.

It has been our honor at Afinitus to work with Mr. Kishira and Being Corporation for the past few years, and we are proud of the contributions we have made to the current phenomenon.  It is truly a case of East meeting West, and producing the best that both cultures and minds, working together, can offer. 

 WaBasedTransformationManagement.pdf

This paper describes our solution for shop floor scheduling in production operations:  Drum-Buffer-Rope, or DBR.  It also discusses its simplified form, S-DBR, which is applicable in most situations.

What_is_DBR.doc

MRO_Brochure.pdf

WHITE PAPER -- "People-Centric Project Management in a High-Stressed Software Development Environment"  As presented at the 2006 PMI Global Congress in Seattle, WA.

 PMI_Paper_October_2006.pdf