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Hi, you're invited to view the recording of a webinar that I presented next week — Wednesday, December 11 at 1 pm ET, as part of the ongoing KaiNexus webinar series: “The Power of Alignment and Intrinsic Motivation in Continuous Improvement“ Click here to register to view the slides and recording...
A new digital continuous improvement approach has emerged and been embraced by successful organizations in every sector.
One of the popular methodologies adopted by businesses to improve efficiency ad productivity is Kanban. Learn all about Kanban in Agile, it’s methods, and more. Read on!
Here's a musical holiday treat for my regular Lean Blog readers and podcast listeners, a song parody, originally released back in 2009: “Gemba Claus is Comin' to Town“ Gemba Claus is Comin' to Town Lyrics by Mark GrabanPerformance by Steve Sholtes Oh, you'd better watch outYou'd better kaizenYou'd...
I recently spoke at Lean Frontier’s Lean Leadership Week Summit, which focused on lean people development and lean accounting.This summit traditionally attract...
Here are a few achievable improvement ideas you can do to get ready for 2020.
Joining me for episode #354 of the podcast is Kim Hollon, the CEO and President of Signature Healthcare, based in Brockton, Massachusetts.I first met Kim about a decade ago and, as we discover during the podcast discussion, one of my Lean healthcare clients in Dallas was later an important influence...
Fujifilm seemed to really kick off the trend for pretty major firmware updates to their existing models, regularly breathing new life into old bodies ever year or two.But while just about every other manufacturer seems to have jumped on the trend with major functional updates, Fujifilm has remained...
As I blogged about this morning, don't forget that you can get a FREE Kindle copy of Practicing Lean today (January 21, 2020). As I blogged about yesterday, my theme this week is “psychological safety.” Again, I'll mention that, on Wednesday, I'll be releasing a podcast with Harvard Business...
My guest for episode #356 of the podcast is Amy C. Edmondson, PhD, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School.She is the author of three books on teaming and her most recent book is the topic of conversation today: The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological...
Here is the story of how Scrum Master certification helped Namrata Mishra to gain the most cutting-edge skills to catapult her career to the next level. Read on!
If you have ever read a Lean book, blog or article, you’ll know that “value” is defined by the customer.While often referenced, we don’t spend enough time thin...
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Kaizen dela Serna, a former member of the Philippine gymnastics team, finds success in obstacle course racing...
Here is something brief that I posted on LinkedIn while I was in Japan recently, but I also wanted to share it here, elaborating a bit. In my visits to Japan, I have learned that not every company here utilizes TPS, Lean, Kaizen, or TQM.
In 2019 several new books were published that are worth reading. If you are putting together a list for the holidays here are three great ideas.
It was at school that I first heard about the Japanese philosophy of kaizen.
Read this article by Memorial Healthcare System, on their Poster Presentation 'KAIZEN IN THE HOSPITAL SETTING: To Eliminate Wasteful Steps from the Discharge Process' for the 2019 Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Summit.
Before Christmas, I was thinking again about upgrading my iPhone 8 Plus to the newer iPhone 11 Pro, as I wrote about here: A few days before Christmas, I decided to take the plunge. In the spirit of “Kaizen,” I initiated a very small test of change with my wife's work iPhone 11 Pro.
Improvement Learning, Improved.
Today on It's My House Podcast we shall be discussing how All Limitations Are Self Imposed - Kaizen 2020. Our LIVE STREAM number is 619-768-2945 or 319-527-4961. Feel free to call into our LIVE STREAM and share any of your questions, comments, or concerns.
If Hollywood can congratulate itself, why can’t we pause to show appreciation for everyone in our organizations who help make things a little bit better?
The DMAIC problem-solving method may seem like a stranger to the A3 but they actually make a great pair.This continuous improvement combo brings much-needed cl...
Toward the end of 2019, I had the opportunity to interview Roy Waterhouse, president of Hopkins Printing.Under Roy’s leadership, this commercial printer has…...
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