Incremental Improvement: Not Just for the Factory Floor.
September 28, 2015If you do a bit of reading about improvement methodologies like Lean, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, or Toyota Kata, you might come...
Simon Sinek Shares an Opinion of Lean on the Gemba Academy Podcast
September 25, 2015I've written about Simon Sinek on this blog before, and if you've read those posts, you know that he is my hero. He's an author best known...
Who’s Responsible for Improvement Management?
October 5, 2015
Make Your Next Kaizen Event a Hole-in-One
September 23, 2015Anyone who plays a little golf can attest to the fact that what you do with the club before and after hitting the ball is every bit as...
"Build a Change Platform?" Yes, We Did
September 22, 2015I first got introduced to the thoughts and teachings of Professor Gary Hamel back in 1997 or so, before I headed off to MIT for grad...
Gemba Walk Your Way Back to School
June 7, 2016When I was in elementary school I loved field trips. What kid doesn’t? We took field trips to the natural history museum, the planetarium,...
When Kaizen Boards and Spreadsheets Fail
February 11, 2020When we first began Kaizen, or Continuous Improvement, at BSA LifeStructures, we used a Kaizen Board in a common area to engage one...
Building the Fit Organization [Webinar Preview]
September 19, 2015We’re really looking forward to the webinar that Dan Markovitz will be presenting on October 13, based on his new book Building the Fit...
The Lowdown on Standard Work
October 10, 2018Standard work is an important concept for any organization that is interested in embracing continuous improvement. It is relatively...
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