Bring the Spirit of Pokémon Go On Your Gemba Walk
August 9, 2016A friend is visiting Rome right now. Yesterday she posted a selfie from the Coliseum. Of course, I asked the obvious question, “Is it a...
Gemba Walks: Your Search for 85% of Your Organization's Problems
June 8, 2016Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a towering intellect whose thinking about improvement affected a quality revolution of gargantuan significance on...
Don’t Take Your Next Gemba Walk Off the Cliff
July 21, 2016Gemba Walks are an important way that managers can identify opportunities for improvement and accelerate positive change within the...
What and Who to Take On Your Next Gemba Walk
June 7, 2016Gemba walks are an important part of any continuous improvement effort. They involve leaders, managers, and supervisors going to the place...
The Beginner’s Guide to Gemba Walks
June 7, 2016Let’s be honest, doing new things is scary and the temptation to avoid trying something unfamiliar is strong. To counter that temptation, I...
A Gemba Walk with Yoda: What Can We Learn?
June 7, 2016Star Wars: The Force Awakens has sold more advance tickets than any movie in history, and it's not close. We’re not going to lie – we’re as...
You’ve Taken a Gemba Walk. Now What?
June 7, 2016As readers of this blog likely know, we’re big fans of the Gemba walk, and we’ve written about it with some frequency. Who can’t get behind...
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,...
The Difference between a Gemba Walk and Management by Walking Around
July 21, 2016When we talk to clients about the value of Gemba Walks, we often hear, “Oh yeah, we do that. We just call it Management by Walking Around.”...