Sharing Best Practices

The Importance of Networking for Learning Lean 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- July 10, 2012
Lean Manufacturing has been taught from practitioner to practitioner and company to company for decades. This learning and reciprocal sharing of best practices is what helps us all improve. A network of like-minded professionals creates an opportunity for those that practice Lean, Six Sigma and other improvement philosophies to share their knowledge; and for those
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Test Your Productivity Skills with GTD-Q in 2 Minutes 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- June 25, 2012
Self management is all about perspective (focus on the right things) and control (the ability to effectively manage all the things coming at you). The David Allen Company in conjunction with one of the world’s leading professional assessment firms developed a test to determine ability to GTD. GTD® is the shorthand brand for “Getting Things
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The Very Best of 5S – Benchmarking Report 0
- Lean in Practice, Sharing Best Practices
- January 24, 2012
Last summer A Lean Journey Blog co-sponsored with 5S Supply a 5S benchmarking survey. Now I am happy to share with you the 5S benchmarking report – “The Very Best of 5S.” This free 30 page eBook is the full summary of a detailed benchmarking survey that 5S Supply sponsored in 2011. See what others are
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4 Steps to Ensure Your Resolution Success 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- January 11, 2012
This is the time of year when people are trying to turn over a new leaf. The beginning of the year marks a point where people make New Year’s Resolutions. Unfortunately, many fail to keep those resolutions. In fact, 81 percent of resolution’s fail within two years. The top New Year’s resolutions rarely change year
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That’s Kaizen – FastCap Style 0
- Lean Basics, Sharing Best Practices
- December 22, 2011
Many think Kaizen is about some sort of 5 day event where you shut down and make improvement. Maybe this idea is fed by consultants in some manner but Kaizen in fact is not this. It is about small incremental change. The type of change that makes it easier to do your job. Change in
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Key Learnings From 2011 0
- Sharing Best Practices
- December 19, 2011
In our strive for continuous knowledge sometimes we fail to look back. Reflecting on our key learnings is an important part of the learning process. My friend Marci Reynolds has done just that in a new post on her blog The Operations Blog. Marci, the Director of Operations at ACI Worldwide, surveyed 12 top operations experts across the globe
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