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Map Your Financial Accounts To See the Big Picture 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- November 28, 2011
Process mapping is a valuable technique for seeing the whole picture of something. While online recently I saw a great article about using process mapping in your financial accounts. A financial network map is a one-page diagram that shows the links and relationships between each of your financial accounts. Creating a map of your accounts
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Don’t Blame the Tools 0
- In the News
- October 12, 2011
At the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference last week my friend Jamie Flinchbaugh gave the closing keynote presentation. Jamie’s talk was about the role of the manager in problem solving. The role of the manager is not to solve all the problems but to build the systems capable of solving problems at every level. One of
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The Practice of Lean and the Marshmallow Problem 0
- Exercises/Games, In the News
- October 11, 2011
At the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference I had the pleasure to meet Mike Rother, author of Toyota Kata. If you haven’t read his book or reviewed his material online you are missing some valuable learning. During Mike’s presentation he talked about Lean as a practice of continuous learning through discovery and experimentation. This is what
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Northeast Shingo Prize Conference – Made in America Recap 0
- In the News
- October 10, 2011
Last week I had the pleasure to attend the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference hosted by my friends at GBMP. The conference was conveniently located in my backyard of Springfield, MA. The theme of this years conference was “Made in America” and as Bruce Hamilton put it “Lean is the means by which we can stay
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Steve Jobs: How to Live Before You Die.0
- In the News
- October 6, 2011
Yesterday, we lost a great innovator and visionary. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, died at age 56 after battling cancer for several years. In memory of Steve and his innovations that have changed our lives I wanted to share this video: Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief
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Made in America – The Northeast Shingo Prize Conference 0
- In the News, Sharing Best Practices
- September 17, 2011
Consider attending the Northeast Lean Conference in Springfield, MA on October 5-6, 2011. The theme is “Made Lean in America” and the idea is to gather hundreds of people to make a strong statement about the ability of companies to use lean to remain a strong and vital part of the American economy. For these
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