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Benchmarking: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly0
- Sharing Best Practices
- August 29, 2011
When organizations want to improve their performance, they often benchmark. Benchmarking is the process of comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. The discussion of whether benchmarking is good or bad is an old one. Benchmarking can be an effective means to learn new skills and
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Lean Quote: You Can’t Recycle Wasted Time0
- Lean Quote
- August 26, 2011
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
READ MOREAn Epic Lean Kitchen0
- Sharing Best Practices, Visual Factory
- August 24, 2011
My buddy Paul Akers at FastCap shares another great example of applying Lean thinking and techniques to make our life easier. This time he takes us into the kitchen at FastCap where the use of visual controls and standard work are examined. I wonder if any of you will take any of these ideas and implement
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Top 10 Rules of Time Management0
- Lean Basics, Sharing Best Practices
- August 23, 2011
Time management truly is critical to becoming productive, doing everything you want to, and achieving ultimate success. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn Therefore it is imperative we learn to manage the finite amount of time we do have to make
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Time is Golden: 7 Rules of Time Management0
- Lean Basics, Sharing Best Practices
- August 22, 2011
by ~Walkington Time is one of the most important commodities that we have. But we are often bombarded with more tasks than we can keep up with. This can result in our most important things being shifted to second place just out of necessity. In order to counter act this you must fully understand time.
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Lean Quote: Respecting Each Other0
- Lean Quote
- August 19, 2011
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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Pascal Dennis is his Own Words on The Remedy0
- Book Review
- August 18, 2011
In yesterday’s post I reviewed Pascal Dennis’ Shingo Prize winning book The Remedy. I thought that it would be appropriate to hear directly from Pascal about his thoughts on The Remedy. In this video Pascal explains the premise of The Remedy, what big company disease is, the remedy to big company disease, and why to
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Book Review: The Remedy by Pascal Dennis0
- Book Review
- August 17, 2011
I recently finished reading The Remedy – Bringing Lean Thinking out of the Factory to Transform the Entire Organization and wanted to share my review. The story, a sequel to Pascal Dennis’s business novel, Andy & Me, depicts the adventures of Lean-thinking protagonist Tom Papas and his mentor, Andy Saito, a retired, reclusive Toyota executive.
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Daily Lean Tips Edition #180
- Lean Tips
- August 16, 2011
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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