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July 2008

04: Happy 4th of July! (0)
02: The Ultimate Productivity System: Zen to Done (2)
01: Turn off the Lights (2)

June 2008

30: Ban the Stop Watch! (13)
26: The Spiritual Side of Continuous Improvement (6)
20: What is Value? (2)
17: 5 Steps to Developing a Tiger Like Attitude (7)
15: Management Improvement Carnival #37 (1)
11: 5 Steps to Developing a Thinking Organization (6)
09: Strategies to Sustain Operations Excellence (11)
04: Entropy, Salmon, and Swimming (9)
02: New LSS Academy Feature: Free Magazines! (2)
01: Eight Reasons Your Lean/Six Sigma Initiative Could Fail (7)

May 2008

30: Conference Calls, Kids, and SMED (3)
28: 8 Dimensions of Quality (1)
27: A Lesson in Courage (3)
22: Make a Mistake… Own up to it (2)
18: Lessons from the airport (1)
13: Calculating Optimal Crew Size in Mixed Model Cells (8)
11: How metrics like OEE often dictate behavior (10)
09: Why Do Employees Underperform? (16)
08: Is Toyota in Trouble? (10)
06: Stumped in the Toilet (10)
05: The Enemy of Better (7)
01: Confused about Time (3)

April 2008

29: Life is like a bowl of oranges (8)
27: Oranges, Pebbles, and Sand (17)
22: Takt Time Competition at Gemba Panta Rei (5)
21: Tips for Dealing with Conflict (1)
20: The Crow and the Pitcher (0)
15: The Efficiency Conundrum (1)
13: The LSS Academy Guide to Lean: Update (7)
10: The Old Navy from Hell (4)
09: Well Do Something! (2)
07: Fix the Broken Windows (6)
03: Don’t Step on the Tape! (4)
01: The Moving Constraint (6)

March 2008

31: Hesitate and Die (0)
30: Dealing with Doubting Thomas (4)
27: 10 Benefits of One Piece Flow (6)
26: What is Progress? (0)
24: A Response to the Video Skeptics (7)
23: LSS Academy Series Review - Six Sigma Edition (2)
20: Spring Fever - Fact or Fiction? (2)
18: Respect for People: Japanese Style (4)
17: How you can help a child in need (2)
16: Toyota: 97% Efficient (6)
14: JKE Update: Reflection and 122 Degree Sand! (2)
13: JKE Update: One Million Spark Plugs per Day (5)
12: JKE Update: Information Overload (5)
10: JKE Day 1: Harmony and Toyota (8)
06: I’m Leaving on a Jet Plane! (3)
05: Brett Favre - Greatest Ever? (4)
03: Free iSixSigma Salary Webcast (0)
02: Introducing the Kaizen Newspaper (5)
01: Need Video Ideas! (12)

February 2008

29: Revisiting “Why Flow Counter Clockwise?” (2)
28: Lean Blog Update (3)
28: The Time of Fulfillment (1)
26: Let’s Create a Future State Value Stream Map! (6)
25: The Real Leader (0)
24: Let’s Create a Current State Value Stream Map! (10)
22: Press to Rationalize Chrysler Product Line (0)
19: Clean up, Guide to Lean, and more (3)
18: One Piece Flow versus Mass Production (36)
18: Welcome to the New LSS Academy (14)
17: What is RSS? (1)
13: Kudos to American Airlines and DFW International Airport (2)
12: How to Create a Product Quantity / Product Routing Matrix (4)
08: Value Stream Mapping Overview (9)
07: Long Live the King (Cash) (4)
06: Schofield Media Group Announces Acquisition of iSixSigma (0)
05: The Never Ending Pursuit of Wisdom (4)
02: Just Do It (3)

January 2008

30: JIT and Jidoka are Useless… (5)
28: Rope Suppliers (3)
27: Inspired at NASA (2)
24: Should we Push or Pull in Schools? (6)
23: Excellence is a Habit (2)
22: Textron CEO on State of Six Sigma (0)
21: Has Lean or Six Sigma Changed your Life? (3)
17: Learning to Learn (0)
16: Former Toyota Exec Speaks (0)
14: Shadows or Reality? (8)
11: Japan Here I Come! (8)
10: Building a Lean Supply Stream (0)
08: The Highest Form of Human Excellence (9)
07: That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger (2)
06: Walk Slowly (5)
03: Management Improvement Carnival #27 (Best of 2007) (5)
02: Lloyd Carr’s Final Message (0)

December 2007

30: One Year of Blogging! (2)
23: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (0)
20: OEE – Not Just for TPM Programs! (4)
18: The Lion and the Gnat (0)
15: Update on iSixSigma Magazine (0)
12: Reader Question: Project Handoffs (3)
11: Are Suggestion “Boxes” the Best Way to Go? (2)
10: Be Like Tony - Smile More! (0)
05: Continuous Improvement Begins with You! (4)
03: No Standards No Kaizen (3)

November 2007

October 2007

28: Two Types of Kaizen (9)
19: The Right Inventory is an Asset! (2)
03: Leadership (6)
01: Who is your mentor? (7)

September 2007

30: Why Flow Counter Clockwise? (7)
27: Liquor Stores and Churches (2)
25: The Bridge Builder (0)
23: A New Lean Metric: ROI LT (2)
20: Where is Ron? (5)
12: Calculating Rolled Throughput Yield (RTY) (3)
09: Six Sigma in Japan (6)
06: Nardelli Poaches Another One (1)
06: Humility (3)
02: Management Improvement Carnival #18 (2)

August 2007

31: Game on! (8)
30: Fun with Confidence Intervals - Part 2 (2)
29: Fun with Confidence Intervals – Part 1 (3)
28: 5 Decision Making Styles (0)
27: Increasing Return on Net Assets (RONA) with Lean & Six Sigma (2)
26: Lean Sushi (0)
22: Teaching with LEGO (3)
21: Descriptive Statistics - Part 2 (5)
20: Descriptive Statistics - Part 1 (2)
19: iSixSigma Editorial Advisory Board (3)
16: Six Sigma Control Phase is Not Anti-Lean (7)
15: Is the Six Sigma Control Phase Anti-Lean? (3)
14: Totally Swamped (1)
13: CEO Of Toy Manufacturing Company Commits Suicide (1)
12: Words from a Motley Fool Genius (2)
10: Learning to Swim (3)
08: Cooking up a Profit (0)
07: 7 Ways to Reduce Cost (4)
06: The Big 200! (2)
05: Bad Metrics in a Hair Salon? (3)
05: God’s Country (0)
04: Transportation Muda (22)

July 2007

30: Facing the Giants (2)
28: 5 Why’s Survey (0)
26: Kaizen Rules – 9 & 10 (3)
25: Kaizen Rules – 7 & 8 (1)
24: Kaizen Rules – 5 & 6 (0)
23: Kaizen Rules – 3 & 4 (1)
22: Kaizen Rules – 1 & 2 (5)
22: True Essence of Continuous Improvement (0)
20: Accenture to Acquire George Group (0)
19: The problem with that is… (4)
18: Final Thoughts of The 4-Hour Workweek (2)
16: Explaining the Central Limit Theorem (7)
15: Cummins Chief Snags Award (0)
15: Just Throw it Away (3)
14: The Power of 3 (2)
13: My Latest Invention Idea (5)
12: 5 Tips to Success (0)
11: Say it ain’t so! Toyota lay people off? (7)
10: Manufacturing Lost 18,000 Jobs In June (4)
09: 8 Tips to Better Meetings (1)
08: Lean Problem Solving (0)
08: This is not Lean (0)
07: Japanese body to boost Indian manufacturing (0)
07: Becoming Annoyed with the 4-Hour Workweek (0)
05: David (Toyota) vs. Goliath (Big 3) (0)
02: 3 Easy Steps to Becoming More Effective (23)
01: Parkinson’s Law (3)
01: My Top 5 Blogging Mistakes (0)

June 2007

30: Cabinet Maker Applies Lean (0)
29: Is the Drive-Thru Really Faster? (0)
28: I Just Made 700 Peanut Butter Sandwiches (3)
28: 10 Steps to Creating a FMEA (5)
28: 3rd Annual Lean, Six Sigma, & Process Improvement Summit (0)
27: How does a 4 hour work week sound? (9)
26: New TOC Blog (0)
25: When is the best time for kaizen? (1)
25: Lean Accounting Webcast Archive (0)
25: How to use RSS (6)
24: How to preach the gospel (0)
23: Six Sigma still popular with search engines (2)
22: God called down the rain (3)
22: Honda needs some kaizen (0)
22: Concrete Heads (0)
21: How to apply the one sample t-test (1)
20: How beer influenced statistics (5)
20: Stop “Deploying” and Make Something Better (1)
19: The Pugh Matrix (0)
18: Lean Dentist (0)
18: We interrupt this Blog (0)
17: Boring wins Championships (2)
15: Dealing with Non Normal Data (1)
14: Introducing Kaizen Products, LLC (0)
14: Free Lean Accounting Webcast (0)
14: 7 Tips to Better Brainstorming (0)
13: Computer Kaizen (5)
12: Too Many Solutions! (4)
11: Need Help Making Decisions? (2)
09: LSSA Carnival - 2 (2)
08: One-Piece-Flow vs. Batch Manufacturing Video (3)
07: Why Heijunka - Part 2 (3)
06: Why Heijunka - Part 1 (2)
05: Fun with HTML (7)
05: Heijunka in the Front Office (4)
02: Is Laying People off Really Anti-Lean? (16)
01: 6 Ways to Use Lean & Six Sigma at Home (4)
01: More IBM Nonsense (1)
01: All the Surveys are Beginning to Whip Me (1)

May 2007

31: 5 Steps to Data Collection (3)
30: Calling all Bloggers! (1)
30: Typical Project Management (5)
30: Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford University (0)
30: Wordpress Rocks! (0)
29: 5S Simulation (2)
29: Tsurube System (8)
28: Stop Moving and Start Working (1)
28: Let’s Stumble (1)
26: Robots (0)
26: Free TPS Video (0)
25: DOE use in the health care industry (2)
25: I Plead Guilty (0)
23: Lowes Misses the Mark (3)
23: Does Toyota need Six Sigma? (1)
22: Free Six Sigma Tools (0)
22: Boeing starts assembly of 787 Dreamliner (5)
21: Winning Rocks! (1)
21: Lean and Tissue Donation (0)
18: Fire at Will! (0)
18: Finance 101 by Taiichi (3)
17: Welcome to the New LSSA (4)
14: Riding a Bike (2)
13: Misconceptions (1)
12: Waiting in US Immigrations Line (3)
09: Taguchi L18 DOE (0)
08: Repetitions versus Replications (3)
08: Could Work Kill You? (3)
07: First Impression of Workplace Management (0)
06: Hangin’ with Taiichi - Update (0)
06: Outsourcing versus Offshoring (1)
05: Saudi Arabia meets Six Sigma (1)
03: Hangin’ with Taiichi (0)
03: Wanna Be Lean? Buy Some Carousels. (4)
02: Repent, I mean Hansei! (2)
01: 100th Post! (3)
01: Is Six Sigma Dying? (2)

April 2007

30: Dumbing Down Six Sigma (0)
29: The Exceptional Presenter (2)
27: Bad Management (0)
26: Complainers Wear Me Out (2)
25: Graphs 101 - By Seth Godin (3)
25: Narrowing the list with n/3 (1)
24: Neural Linguistic Programming (3)
23: Lean Landscaping (0)
23: Sheryl Speaks about Toilet Paper (4)
22: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4)
21: Binary Logistic Regression (0)
19: TOC Bottleneck versus Lean Pacemaker – Part 2 (1)
18: TOC Bottleneck versus Lean Pacemaker – Part 1 (2)
17: Who is Visiting the Blog? (5)
16: Taguchi Index – Cpm (4)
16: A Real Invisibility Cloak - Mass Producers Dream! (2)
15: Taguchi Loss Function (6)
12: Span – GE’s Variation Weapon (11)
11: Playing Fast – American Football and Lean (3)
10: Sorry So Grumpy Lately (0)
09: Jidoka – The Forgotten Pillar (5)
08: The Airline Companies Amaze Me (11)
07: Happy Easter! (0)
06: Un-Lean Lean Companies (4)
05: Superfactory Training (8)
04: Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) (2)
03: How to Achieve Zero Defects (0)
01: Bloggers Unite in Keller Texas (2)

March 2007

30: Textron Six Sigma (1)
29: How Not to Screw up Pluses and Deltas (3)
27: The Hardest of the 5S’s (0)
26: Explaining Cp and Cpk (4)
25: The Cat is Back! (4)
21: North American Manufacturing (0)
19: Demystifying Design of Experiments (2)
18: Introducing SPACER (3)
15: The Mysterious Process Cycle Efficiency (2)
14: Oops! (0)
13: Confused about Waste (6)
12: Wake up Chrysler (2)
11: TPS and Family Time (1)
10: Six Sigma City Magazine – Free (2)
09: Get on your Knees (3)
08: LSSA Carnival: 1 (1)
07: LSSA Site Update (1)
06: New DOE Teaching Aid (2)
06: Regression - Part 3 (3)
05: Regression - Part 2 (1)
04: Regression - Part 1 (6)
01: The Tipping Point (3)
01: Teaching our Kids (0)

February 2007

28: Construction Industry Uses LSS (2)
27: Hypothesis Testing (12)
26: Lean Six Sigma Hot Sports Opinions (3)
24: Talking with Toyota’s Chief (2)
23: Once a Month Cooking - Lean or Not? (14)
22: The New Savior of the Free World - MVT (4)
21: Value Stream Mapping Confusion (2)
20: Japanese Words (3)
20: My “Sensei” Wife (2)
19: Bollinger Bands (4)
18: NASCAR Fans React! (2)
18: Lean Six Sigma at 3M (0)
15: Two Bin Kanban (3)
13: Excellent Six Sigma Resource (0)
12: Why Some Lean Six Sigma Programs Fail - Part 2 (0)
11: Why Some Lean Six Sigma Programs Fail - Part 1 (0)
10: Waiting (0)
08: SMART update (0)
08: Lean Lexicon (0)
07: Stop the Finger Pointing! (1)
06: Standard Work (5)
03: Electronic Kanban (2)
01: Be SMART! (2)

January 2007

31: Control Charts - Part 3 (5)
30: Control Charts – Part 2 (0)
29: Control Charts - Part 1 (3)
28: I am Humbled (2)
27: Evolution of Dance (1)
27: The Toyota Way (0)
27: Toyota’s Real Secret: Hint, It’s Not TPS (0)
26: The Forgotten M’s (6)
24: CAVE People (0)
22: Cupholders (0)
20: Motorola misses Badly (2)
19: Lean Lunch (2)
18: Six Sigma and JIT (2)
17: Six Sigma Saves Fortune 500 $427 Billion (0)
16: The Heated Law of Dispersion (0)
16: Process Mapping - Lean or Six Sigma Tool? (5)
15: About Us (0)
15: Creating Synergy with Lean and Six Sigma (2)
14: Lean or Six Sigma? (1)