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Learning Lean Through Making Coffee Replayed 0
- A Lean Journey, Webinar
- November 22, 2010
Earlier this month Jeff Hajek and I hosted a new learning experience where we combined a radio show format with a webinar. In our first show we used the process of making coffee to explain various Lean concepts. Every day examples like this that we can all relate to can make the learning more effective. Below
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Lean Quote: Team Recognition is about We’s not I’s 0
- Lean Quote
- November 19, 2010
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
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Lean Tips Edition #5 0
- Lean Tips
- November 16, 2010
For my Facebook fans you have probably already seen this. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I started a new feature which I call Lean Tips. It is meant to be advice, things I learned from experience, and some knowledge tidbits about Lean to
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Start a New Direction: Learning From CONNSTEP’s Conference 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- November 15, 2010
Last week I attended CONNSTEP’s Manufacturing and Business Conference in Hartford, CT. I presented on Lean Product Development which I highlighted in the an earlier post. For those who were unable to attend the conference this year I wanted to share some of my own learning with you. The conference held on Veteran’s Day opened with veteran
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Lean Quote: Don’t Tell How To Do It 0
- Lean Quote
- November 12, 2010
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
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Brainstorming 0
- Lean Basics, Quality
- November 10, 2010
Brainstorming is a popular tool that helps you generate creative solutions to a problem. It is particularly useful when you want to break out of stale, established patterns of thinking, so that you can develop new ways of looking at things. It also helps you overcome many of the issues that can make group problem-solving
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