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How would you explain what Lean is to a 7-year-old?
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
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Let’s Create a Current State Value Stream Map!
"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
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Shadows or Reality?
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
Lean & Six Sigma Articles
What You Do Doesn’t Have to Define You
May 20th, 2013
To listen to this article in podcast format please click the play button below. You can subscribe to future LSS Academy article podcasts via iTunes by clicking here. Click Arrow to Play Podcast What You Do Doesn't Have to Define You My 8-year-old daughter has been playing soccer for more than 4
How Do You Document Your Processes?
May 13th, 2013
At Gemba Academy we’re constantly doing our best to “practice what we teach.” Now, to be honest, we’re far from perfect (who is?) but we’re always trying to find better ways to take care of our customers and develop better products and services. A Day in the Life at Gemba Academy Much of our da
Going to Gemba vs. Statistical Analysis
May 6th, 2013
Early in my professional career I worked as a Process Engineer at Nokia (in their mobile phone division). I had many responsibilities but, ultimately, my most important job centered on ensuring all of the equipment was producing cell phones that worked the first time. Go to Gemba We lean prac
Knee Jerk Statistics
April 29th, 2013
The folks over at Minitab recently wrote an excellent article about how a Six Sigma practitioner leveraged binary logistic regression analysis in order to better understand why associates at a manufacturing plant were quitting. What they learned The team discovered that the distance the employee d
The Problem with A3 Reports
April 22nd, 2013
The A3 report may be one of the most misunderstood lean thinking tools of our time. Why do I say this? Simple. It's Just a Piece of Paper The A3 report, in and of itself, is nothing more than a piece of paper. But, for some reason, many people believe that the A3 report – by itself - will ma
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