I recently wrote about the most read LSS Academy articles in 2009.

Now, in this post, I’d like to share with you the LSS Academy articles that garnered the most comments in 2009.

As you’ll see some of these posts are quite short in nature… but that didn’t stop you from speaking your mind!

To me, the measure of a successful blog is the number of comments it gets.   So, I definitely want to say THANK YOU for reading and most especially for joining in on the conversation.

1. The Spinning Lady (39 comments)
2. Leadership Standard Work (26 comments)
3. Level 5 Leadership (23 comments)
4. Is Pottery Barn Lean? (22 comments)
5. Bathroom Lean (22 comments)
6. Womack’s Lean versus Ohno’s TPS (22 comments)
7. Oh Snap! We Sent Bad Product to Our Customer: Fun with the Hypergeometric Distribution (21 comments)
8. Knowledge and Thinking (18 comments)
9. 7 Ways to Reduce Costs (18 comments)
10. How Do You Measure Success? (17 comments)
11. If Lean Is So Great, Why Is Toyota Struggling? (15 comments)
12. Is Economic Lot Size Dead? (15 comments)
13. You’re Late. What Do you Say? (14 comments)
14. 45 Inches and Sizers (12 comments)
15. I am sorry (12 comments)
16. The Complete Meaning of Shitsuke (12 comments)
17. My New Stand Up Desk (11 comments)
18. Simplicity (11 comments)

According to Google Analytics readers from 177 different countries and/or territories visited LSS Academy in 2009.

That is beyond humbling.

Never, in my wildest dreams, did I imagine such as thing would be possible when I sat down a few years ago and typed my very first blog post.  All I can say is THANK YOU.

In any event, I thought I would wind the year down by sharing the most read articles on the blog.

Now, to be sure, these are not necessarily the articles with the most comments… or even my favorite articles… but they were the most read (Pageviews in Google Analytics).

1. Let’s Create a Current State Value Stream Map
2. 8 Dimensions of Quality
3. 10 Steps to Creating a FMEA
4. Value Stream Mapping Overview
5. The Pugh Matrix
6. One Piece Flow versus Mass Production
7. Explaining Cp and Cpk
8. Calculating Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY)
9. Let’s Create a Future State Value Stream Map!
10. 7 Practical Ways to Respect People

Again, thank you for taking the time to read and participate in the discussion here at LSS Academy.  I truly appreciate you all.

Update: To see the 18 Most Active LSS Articles in 2009 follow this link.