I see the world as full of opportunity and every day I think about Lean: at the grocery store, at the gym, even when I am hiking.
Many of these ideas turn into products, become articles, wind up in our newsletter, or get added to entries in The Continuous Improvement Companion.
But sometimes I just want to share my thoughts with the world at large, in the hopes that it makes someone’s day a little better because of it.
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- 5 Why Analysis-Lean Training Video
- A Bad Employee Attitude Resonates Throughout an Organization
- A Common Lean Problem: Mismatched Expectations
- A Hundred Million People Just Went 'Huh?'
- A Lean Prognostication
- Abnormal Conditions and Parking Lots
- Andon: Lean Superhero
- Attitude, Employee Behavior, Customer Service, and Lean
- Be Flexible in Your Kaizen Project
- Benchmark Lean: Difficulties Copying the Toyota Production System. Lean TPS Information.
- Benefit of Lean: Is Lean Really Easier?
- Benefits, Lean or Otherwise, Depend on Perspective
- Categories of Waste: Why They Don't Really Matter
- Collective Intelligence and Lean. How to Harness All of Your Team’s Brainpower
- Communicating Goals: Managing Continuous Improvement Teams
- Communication. Lean Depends on It.
- Competition at Work. How Lean Principles Can Help.
- Correlation or Causation? Interceptions and the Playoffs.
- Costs of Business. What Does 'Cost' Really Mean?
- Customer Service-Lean: First Impressions Last
- Customer Service: Retention to an Extreme
- Customer Value Added. Helping the customer get more value out of using your product.
- Domino's Restaurant Kaizen
- Don’t Let Cost Reduction Eliminate Customer Value
- Dumb Jobs: Dirt Can't Hide. Dumb Can.
- External and Internal Customers in Lean
- Fishbone / Ishikawa / Cause and Effect Diagram Video Training
- Gauge Go/No-Go. Can You Be Lean and Not Even Know It?
- Government Lean. The TSA and Process Improvement.
- High School Math and Lean
- How to 5S. Or More Accurately, How NOT to 5S.
- How to Organize Cables with 5S
- Improvement Objectives In Lean
- In Lean Jobs, Experience Is Less Important
- Inspection and Quality. How the NFL Can Teach You About Lean.
- Is There Value in Lean Certification?
- Is Your Leadership Style a Bottleneck to Creativity?
- Kaizen at Home, Holiday Style!
- Kaizen Creativity: Breaking Preconceived Notions
- Leading Change: What’s Good for the Goose ISN’T Good for the Gander
- Lean and the News (and a Contest!)
- Lean Measurement: It’s all in how you measure it…
- Lean Podcast-Managing the Fear of Failure in Lean
- Lean Results: Don’t Believe the Hype (At Least in a Kaizen Report Out)
- Lean System vs. Lean Tools
- Lean Versus Batch Manufacturing Video
- Lean Workplace: Group Dynamics, Basketball, and Lean Projects
- Learning Lean: Always Re-learning Lean Lessons
- Make Quality Better: Eliminate Hammers
- Managing Expectations in 3 Steps
- Marketing. Lean and your brand
- Mirror, Mirror on my Workbench, Who’s the Quickest with a Wrench?
- Mistake Proofing: Temporary Speed Bumps and Schools Zones
- Need to Poka Yoke My Process...
- Office Process Flow and IF-THEN Statements
- Out of Box Thinking…from an Insurance Company?
- Outsourcing Homework? It Was Bound to Happen.
- Overprocessing Waste: A Different Spin on the Waste of Overprocessing.
- Peanut Butter and Jelly. Starsky and Hutch. Inspection and Quality?
- Personal Kaizen: Getting Lean the Lean Way
- Poka Yoke Devices and Airlines
- Poka Yoke? Or Poka Yuck...
- Prevent Layoffs: Use Lean Skills to Protect Your Job
- Problem Solving: Creative Ideas Don't Have to Cost a Fortune
- Process Observation: Watch Before You Ask
- Productive Work: How to Quickly Gauge Worker Productivity
- Productivity Incentives That Work
- Reader's choice! Help pick an upcoming post.
- Standard Work Procedures: Hand-Written or Computer Generated?
- Standardization: Process Enhancer or Creativity Killer?
- Standardizing Personal Processes
- Stray Jet Follow-Up
- Supplier Criteria: Do They Apply to Internal Suppliers, too?
- Team Members Late to Meetings During a Kaizen Blitz? Not Anymore!
- The Employee Reprimand: Is It Effective?
- The Madden Curse and Lean
- The Meaning of Lean
- The Three Lean Books a New Shop Floor Manager MUST Own
- The Visual Workplace: Shorten Those Shelves!
- TPM: How to Protect Million-Dollar Athletes and Production Machines
- TV Shows that Teach Lean
- Ums and Ahs: Improving Your Public Speaking
- Using Lean in My Own Business
- Using Video to Support the Process Walk
- Value the Customer: That Didn't Seem Faster...
- Web Surfing Best Practices
- What 5S (Lean) disease strikes millions?
- What If Meetings Were Lean?
- When Bacon and Kaizen Collide...
- When Good Processes Go Bad...
- Why is a Lean Call Center like the Tour de France?
- Work Lean: Ride the Continuous Improvement Wave
- You're in! Nope. Just kidding. Quality control in administrative proccesses.
