Developing a Kaizen Conscious with Shingo Prize winner Michael Balle
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Michael Ballé is the co-author of, The Gold Mine, a bestselling business novel of a Lean Turnaround, and recently, The Lean Manager, a novel of a Lean Transformation both published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. For the past 15 years, he has studied lean transformations, helping companies develop a lean culture. He is an engaging [...]
When those old guys say stuff, you should listen!
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009I am working and creating some examples for the Lean Marketing House, and I wanted to create several A3 reports on several pieces of the foundations. As I was struggling to get started, I remembered what my first Lean teacher told me: Start with 5S so that you don’t spend your time on anything wasteful [...]
Did you know you could draw your Value Stream Map in Excel
Thursday, September 24th, 2009People buy all these different products to do simple drawings for Value Stream Mapping using basic symbols. When they are done, they pull out the Microsoft Excel sheet and do the calculations. Sometimes they are even forced to do create their own formulas. I became familiar with Systems2win and their Value Stream Mapping tool does [...]
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