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Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog writes …
Management Improvement Carnival #108
Kevin Meyer hosts the Management Improvement Carnival #108 on his blog, highlights include:
Gemba Tales: Developing Leader Standard Work – Five Important Steps – key components of leader standard work. Flinchbaugh: Small-i ROI as Applied to Strategy – Sometimes instead of focusing on the big R in ROI, it can pay to find a unique niche requiring just … [Link]
Evolving Excellence writes …
Giuliani at the Gemba on 9/11
By Kevin Meyer
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a review of the National Geographic Channel's documentary "Giuliani’s 9/11" which takes tells us about the events of that day through the eye's of New York's then mayor. What's front and center in the review and apparently in the documentary? Giuliani's decision to go to the gemba.
The mayor rushed to the …
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The Lean Thinker writes …
What you can, Where you can
In my review of Toyota Kata by Mike Rother, I suggested that the staff-level practitioners who are embedded in almost every company that is “implementing lean” could put those practices to work immediately, even if it was not an ideal “top down” teaching process.
This week I gave that a try.
I was coaching a workshop leader who …
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Gotta Go Lean by Jeff Hajek writes …
Value, Shmalue
As I troll the Internet looking for juicy new Lean topics to sink my teeth into, I frequently come across questions from people asking about how to classify tasks as value-added or non value-added. Now, the concept of value-added and non value-added work is great. It is important to understand how the tasks we do [...]
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Lean Blog writes …
Podcast #98 – Pat Bergin, President of Aerofil Technology
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Podcast #98 brings us Pat Bergin, President of Aerofil Technology, a manufacturer based in Missouri with 400 employees. Aerofil has been on its Lean journey since 2007 under Pat’s leadership – first as a consultant and now as President.
With more than 30 years of operations, finance, sales and …
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A Lean Journey writes …
Lean Quote Inspirational Leadership
On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on this journey because without learning … [Link]
Evolving Excellence writes …
Bill Waddell on Lean Nation
Just a quick note that you can listen to an archived Lean Nation radio show from last week featuring an interview with none other than our own Bill Waddell. Listen here or download and listen to the mp3 here.
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Gotta Go Lean by Jeff Hajek writes …
Find a Factory Whisperer
Most people look at a factory, and just see a building where people make things. They just see chaos. They see people mixed with inanimate objects, sprinkled with the occasional robot. But there is more to it than that. A factory is a living, breathing, active thing. It has a pulse. It grows. It gets [...]
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Jamie Flinchbaugh writes …
The Subtle Different Between Coaching Up and Being a Pain the Ass
How to improve your ability to work up in the organizational chart
I’m sure many of you in organizations of every shape and size see the need and opportunity to coach up. But coaching your boss, or other leaders beyond that, can be a tricky business. Despite it being one of the most substantial areas of leverage for …
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Lean Blog writes …
My Interview with Justin Holland, of GE Healthcare
Today’s post is an interview I conducted via email with Justin Holland, Managing Principal of GE Healthcare Americas. Before joining GE, he was most recently Vice President of Business Performance at Cleveland Clinic.
In this interview we cover topics including how GE integrated lean with six sigma, how healthcare organizations are striving to have a “lean culture,” and some of …
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