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Lean Quote: Stop Training and Start Helping People Learn0
- Lean Quote
- August 30, 2013
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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Daily Lean Tips Edition #520
- Lean Tips
- August 27, 2013
For my Facebook fans you already know about this great feature. But for those of you that are not connected to A Lean Journey on Facebook or Twitter I post daily a feature 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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A Successful Company Begins and Ends With a Quality Culture0
Culture is the shared beliefs, values, attitudes, institutions, and behavior patterns that characterize the members of a community or organization. In a healthy business culture, what’s good for the company and for customers comes together and becomes the driving force behind what everyone does. Leaders of business have a powerful influence on the development of
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Lean Quote: The Best Time is Now0
- Lean Quote
- August 23, 2013
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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Poka Yoke: Mistake Proofing to Reduce Errors0
- Lean in Practice, Sharing Best Practices
- August 21, 2013
Some may say that it’s impossible to eliminate mistakes. And they are right; it is, most of the time. But, to be honest, they are missing the point. Poka yoke, or mistake proofing, describes any behavior changing constraint that is built into a process to prevent an incorrect operation or act occurring. The three aims
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Restarting Your Lean Journey0
- Lean Management
- August 20, 2013
Despite the enormous popularity of Lean, the track record for successful implementation of the methodology is spotty at best. Some recent studies say that failure rates for Lean programs range between 50 percent and 95 percent. A Lean journey is full of steps not all of which are forward. Failure will occur. Its ok, the
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Three Reasons You Need a Lean Coach0
- Change Management, Lean Management
- August 19, 2013
Lean manufacturing is a very broad philosophy for business improvement that has many tools/techniques to aid you in making your production or service more efficient and better at offering your customer a great value. Being able to successfully implement Lean across a company is not something that you can pick up from reading a few
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Lean Quote: Finding Better Ways To Do Things Is Lean0
- Lean Quote
- August 16, 2013
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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Managers Must Be Teachers0
- ASQ's Influential Voices, Leadership
- August 14, 2013
In Paul Borawski’s post this month on The View from the Q Blog he asks about our experience with training. He shared some results regarding the matter from ASQ’s Global State of Quality research. (Remember, you can download the entire report for free at the above link.) From the research: “Organizations that govern quality with a
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