A Lean Transformations Sponsor Post: Lean Transformation, Strategy Execution, and Supply Chain Management Lean Transformation Avoid mediocrity and let us help you take the path less traveled. Create a sustainable organization through their Comprehensive Lean Transformation Program. Strategy Execution 90% of well-designed strategies fail due to poor execution. Define and implement strategic initiatives through their … Continue reading Transformation Advisors Services
By Thom Mandl, Guest Contributor for Transformation Advisors Certifications Demonstrate Expertise Professional certifications can cost hundreds and sometimes even thousands of dollars. Perhaps even more importantly, they often require a significant investment of time and energy – both of which are in short supply for busy professionals. As both an employer and job seeker, I … Continue reading Top 5 Reasons to Earn a Lean Certification
Guest Post by Mike Loughrin, CEO for Transformance Advisors Pondering Failure With the excitement of Halloween in the air, different thoughts sneak into my mind. One topic, I’ve been pondering, is how too many organizations struggle with their lean transformation and find themselves in the category known as “we tried that and it didn’t work.” Looking … Continue reading The Horrors of Lean
CLN Member Jeffrey Weide at SHAPE Consulting LLC How did you get your start in lean?I have been working in Lean for over 15 years. I first started process improvement in the Air Force and working QI projects and process evaluations for 6 years. As I finished my Air Force commitment, I was trained through Villanova as … Continue reading Member Spotlight: Meet Lean Member SHAPE CONSULTING
Have you ever been facilitating a project and the team has come to the conclusion that a lack of knowledge is the root cause of your problem and education will fix it? I think this has happened to at least 50% of the projects I’ve worked on. Yet despite us assuring the team that education … Continue reading The PDSA cycle and the Power of Prediction
How do you stop people from painting themselves into a corner, by stating a solution, as a problem...? We explore one simple technique to break-away and start thinking about problems, instead of their symptoms.
This was a screenshot of my calendar last week. Fairly typical of most professionals I'd say; meetings peppered throughout my day, some a simple 30 minutes where various inputs were needed, others half day problem solving sessions I was either hosting or involved with. It also seems fairly common that this doesn't describe the whole … Continue reading Tired of meetings? Try Lean Coffee Hour
Tom Wujec is famous for traveling around the world in order to fix complex business problems while relating those problems to the process of making toast. Corey Niemeyer and myself thought that this activity would mesh well with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich simulation that we developed. It seems that this simulation has gone … Continue reading Process Mapping with Toast
Getting to the root cause of a problem is the first step taken to understand how to fix the problem. After all, if you do not know what is causing the problem, how are you going to fix it? Ask Why 30 Times Certified Reliability Engineer Mark Galley takes this methodology one step further. Expanding … Continue reading Root Cause Analysis
