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You Don’t Need Quality Police, Focus on Quality Prevention 0
- Quality
- March 11, 2013
In some organizations, we might as well give the quality folks a uniform, a badge and a gun. They act like they are the Quality Police. Progressive companies realize you cannot inspect quality into a product. By the time product is inspected, its level of quality has already been established. The primary means of ensuring
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Lean Quote: Courage is the Key to Great Leadership 0
- Lean Quote
- March 8, 2013
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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When it Comes to Improvement Sweat the Small Stuff 0
- Lean Management
- March 6, 2013
You’ve probably heard both of these sayings before. “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” and “The devil is in the details.” That first statement would suggest that worrying about small things is a waste of time and resources, while the second statement suggests quite the opposite, telling us to pay very close attention to each detail.
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Rework Hampers Root Cause Analysis and Improvement 0
- Lean Management, Quality
- March 5, 2013
As a customer, you know how you feel when a supplier lets you down by giving you poor service or by failing to deliver the right quantity and quality product at the right time. When the shoe is on the other foot and you are the supplier we see it different. These situations usually mean
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Management by the Numbers Makes You Blind, Go Beyond the Numbers 0
- Leadership
- March 4, 2013
Businesses love numbers and every good business manager loves metrics. After all, the old adage, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure” still holds true in most management circles. However, a singular focus on metrics and worse, concentration on wrong metrics, keeps getting executives in trouble. But here’s the key thing about numbers: they tell
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Lean Quote: Small Improvements Are Believable And Therefore Achievable 0
- Lean Quote
- March 1, 2013
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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