How Can You Effectively Introduce Lean Improvements in Your Organization?
What is Lean? At its core, “Lean” is about improving and optimizing your operations. An organization using lean thinking consistently ...
U.S. Manufacturing Could See a Strong Comeback with Lean Techniques
Made in America – Is U.S. Manufacturing poised for a strong comeback? Over the holidays I had the chance to ...
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I was facilitating a kaizen for a team that had decided to tackle a very challenging improvement. The ...
The Perfect Game
On June 18 the LA Dodgers played the Colorado Rockies and won 8-0. Clayton Kershaw, the pitcher for the Dodgers, ...
Increase the Return on Lean Training Investments
Lean Training is usually an integral part of the lean journey. Lean Training occurs in the beginning to introduce organizations ...
Personal Lean – Getting Things Done Part 2
Information flow structure = reduced time wasted In an earlier post I identified a problem with information flow that was ...
Personal Lean: An Experiment to Increase Available Time to Add More Value
Taiichi Ohno had the same 24 hour day that I do. Jeff Bezos and Larry Page only have 24 hours ...
Which Problem Solving Form Should We Use?
Problem solving can be complicated. Let’s face it. If you Google “problem solving methods” there are 69,400,000 entries to choose ...
High Agreement of Both What and How
By Susan Pleasant I have become increasingly intrigued with the power of high agreement mechanisms and the principle of high ...
Baggage
I spend at least 50% of my time teaching classes for people who for various reasons are interested enough in ...