Spreading the Good News that is Lean & Six Sigma
Yesterday afternoon while driving home from a soccer game (and before I smashed into a Ford truck and obliterated the right side of my little … Continue Reading
"Whenever there is a product for a customer, there is a value stream. The challenge lies in seeing it.” -Learning to See, Lean Enterprise … Continue Reading
One of my passions in life is to learn. As such, I have begun the year by ditching books about leadership, lean, and six sigma (for now). In … Continue Reading
June 11th, 2013
Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford It’s 9:25 PM on a Friday night and I’m currently sitting in the Seattle Tacoma airport due to my flight being delayed. Latest estimates have me arriving home in Dallas Fort Worth at around 2:00 AM. So, aside from being able to ca
June 3rd, 2013
Used properly, a Failure Mode & Effects Analysis, or FMEA, can add tremendous value to any organization seeking to understand how (and why) things go wrong with our processes, products, and services. And, most importantly, FMEAs also help us to continuously improve our processes and products
May 29th, 2013
I don't normally like to publicly disagree with other continuous improvement influencers here on LSS Academy. I tend to believe there's enough disagreement in the world that I don't need to add to it. But, alas, I recently watched a YouTube video that I really disagree with and felt compelled
May 24th, 2013
In this podcast I revisit a topic I've written about before on the blog... genchi genbutsu. To play the podcast please press the play button above. During the podcast we meet a Toyota Engineer who takes "going to gemba" to an entirely new level! We also discuss why things such as surveys and f
May 20th, 2013
To listen to this article in podcast format please click the play button above. What You Do Doesn't Have to Define You My 8-year-old daughter has been playing soccer for more than 4 years. And she's been playing at a competitive level for over 2 years. Put another way, she’s played the
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