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Creating A Quality Focused Culture 0
- Quality
- May 7, 2012
A reader recently asked me how you go about creating a quality focused culture. Building a quality culture is not an easy task. A quality culture starts with managers who understand and believe the implications of the systems view and know the necessity of serving customers in order to succeed. The result of that understanding
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Lean Quote: Opportunity is Dressed as Hard Work 0
- Guest Post, Lean Quote
- May 4, 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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Kanban Flow – A Free, Fast, & Flexible Kanban Tool 0
- Lean Resources
- May 2, 2012
My experimentation with personal kanban systems has been well documented here. I am a fan of using a digital personal kanban board to manage tasks and projects for work, personal, and blog activities. Now there is a new tool to help you be more productive. It is webapp called KanbanFlow. KanbanFlow is completely free to
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Demonstrating Commitment Is A Combination of Support and Improvement 0
- Leadership, Lean Management
- May 1, 2012
Last week’s Lean Tip shown here: Lean Tip #452 – Commitment from management is a “MUST”. In fact, it is the driving force. Procedures, tools, and database are all useless if the management does not want to see an improvement culture in the organization. The employees of the organization will not care, if the management
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Lean Quote: Empowerment Leads to Success 0
- Lean Quote
- April 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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If you are a manager, then think of yourself as a queue 0
- In the News
- April 25, 2012
The role of management should be an important one for organizations. Management can be defined as the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Unfortunately, sometimes management in not the business leader it should be but rather the bottleneck. In Bob Emiliani’s recent newsletter he
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