Four Women Who Left Their Mark in the World of Lean
The Roots of Lean While the birth of Lean is attributed to Motorola in the 1980s, many of today's lean ...
3 Tips to Enhance Employee Motivation & Bolster Creativity
The Importance of Employee Motivation The workplace is changing, and employee motivation is at the forefront of these changes. It ...
How Crude Experimentation Maximizes Innovation to Drive Success
The Problem with Traditional Experimentation Experimentation and innovation cannot exist without one another. To embrace innovation, we must also embrace ...
Theory of Constraints: How to Identify Weakness to Increase Flow
What is the Theory of Constraints? Every organization faces bottlenecks, or constraints, in their daily operations. These constraints are often ...
Lean – What Is the ROI?
Lean – What Is the ROI? “What is the return on investment for lean?” This question is asked frequently in ...
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 ...