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Gemba-Based Education – Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking0
- Visual Factory
- February 9, 2012
The Lean Enterprise Institute, Rhode Island-based VIBCO and instructor Gwen Galsworth will collaborate to offer the Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking seminar. The format is a combination of classroom and shop-floor learning. Participants will first attend a visual workplace workshop on March 27th in Warwick, RI, followed by a visit to VIBCO on March 28th to observe
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Book Review: Blind Spots0
- Book Review
- February 8, 2012
The corporate culture in American business has certainly changed in the last decade with factors like the recession. This can give you pause to all that supposed career advice. Alexandra Levit debunks those business myths we’ve heard repeatedly in her latest book Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths You Can’t Afford to Believe on Your
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New Product: WeekDate Simplifies Planning0
- Productivity
- February 7, 2012
WeekDate provides one dedicated area for monthly events and one for weekly events that never change. This clever calendar is split into 3 sections: Top – Monthlies Monthlies are activites that occur every month on the same day. For example, your book club is the fourth Thursday of every month. Bottom – Weeklies Weeklies are
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New Blog Feature – ASQ’s Influential Voices0
- ASQ's Influential Voices
- February 6, 2012
I was invited to participate in ASQ’s Influential Voices blogging community. ASQ, American Society of Quality, is a global community of experts and the leading authority on quality in all fields, organizations, and industries. As a professional association, ASQ advances the professional development, credentials, knowledge and information services, membership community, and advocacy on behalf of
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Lean Quote: Our Process is Different0
- Lean Quote
- February 3, 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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Seeing the Whole Value Stream Expanded Second Edition0
- Book Review
- February 1, 2012
What a difference a decade makes. It has been nearly a decade since Daniel Jones and Jim Womack wrote Seeing the Whole in which they expand on Learning to See. They created a tool to allow change-agent managers to tackle higher, more extended value streams across multiple plants and across multiple companies. Now the two
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #260
- Lean Tips
- January 30, 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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Lean Quote: The Gift of A Good Book0
- Lean Quote
- January 27, 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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Book Review: A Factory of One0
- Book Review
- January 25, 2012
Most people who seek to improve their personal productivity are left with a bunch of anecdotes and tools. They fail to understand how to make it all work. What they don’t realize is they lack a system of improvement to make their process better. Now there is a new book that does just that. Daniel
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