Glossary

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, what, why 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, what, why, and how customers are; A chapter of Leanism