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Gemba

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Japanese for 'the actual place' — lean-speak for going to where work happens instead of theorizing in conference rooms. A gemba walk is management leaving the map to look at the territory.

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“The gemba walk found the workaround the process docs never mentioned.”

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Lean vocabulary that earns its keep. The floor always knows things the dashboard doesn't.

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