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Moving Quality Beyond The Product0
- ASQ's Influential Voices
- June 18, 2012
In June’s post on ASQ’s A View from the Q Blog Paul Borawski asks how you are moving quality beyond product. … the Quality Council report provides great insights on how the quality community is responding and what it can do better. And therein lies the seed for my question of the day. The opening
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Lean Quote: Reduce Fire Fighting By Not Participating0
- Lean Quote
- June 15, 2012
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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Meet-up: Lean Leadership’s Christian Paulsen0
- Meet-up
- June 13, 2012
Today, we’ll meet-up with Christian Paulsen, who blogs at Lean Leadership. Christian has contributed several guest posts here. He started blogging shortly after me so we have grown through the process together. It has been nice to have someone to trade insights with and learn with. The goal of Meet-up is provide you an opportunity to
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Checking Your Lean Progress Discussion on Metrics0
- Webinar
- June 12, 2012
After the webinar Jeff Hajek and I gave we posted the video and slides from our talk on “Checking Your Lean Progress”. This started a conversation on metrics that I wanted to share with you and get your thoughts on. Don Fitchett from Business Industrial Network asks: Do you think if the metrics you mention
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Guest Post: Benefits and Value of Continued Learning and Training0
- Guest Post
- June 11, 2012
Today’s post is written by Tim Hoff from American Trainco, who specializes in maintenance training. Tim shares 11 benefits of continued learning and training in our workforce that I think we all will find valuable. Offering continuing education opportunities for employees has several benefits for employers. One of them is that a workforce that is well-trained
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Lean Quote: Quality Defined, More Than Standards0
- Lean Quote
- June 8, 2012
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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Meet-up: Gemba Tale’s Mark Hamel0
- Meet-up
- June 6, 2012
Today, I am proud to introduce a good friend Mark Hamel. He is the author of Kaizen Event Fieldbook and blogger at Gemba Tales. Mark lives only a few miles away so he has been a great resource on my Lean Journey and someone I can confide in when the journey gets challenging. The goal
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #320
- Lean Tips
- June 5, 2012
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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Checking Your Lean Progress Replayed0
- Webinar
- June 4, 2012
Jeff Hajek and I joined up once agan to discuss ways to measure the progress of your Lean journey. We covered how to evaluate Lean training, continuous improvement culture, Lean leadership, and more. If you would like to review the slides from this webinar you can find them below: Checking Progress On Your Lean Journey
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