Few people will discuss their failures and I compliment David Adams (@commanderadams) for being so open during his upcoming podcast when I ask him about his failures and successes on developing a community. The podcast will not post next week but the following week of October 15th. However, I want to share the information about Read More …
Lean as your Business Model Art Byrne has been implementing Lean strategy in various U.S.-based manufacturing and service companies, such as Danaher Corporation, for more than 30 years, including The Wiremold Company, which he ran for 11 years. He now serves as Operating Partner at the private equity firm J. W. Childs Associates L.P. Art Read More …
Andy Carlino and Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Learning Center discuss activity mapping and product / process maps and their use in business process improvement. A couple of my favorite Lean people add to my recent conversations on Process Mapping. Jamie and Andy are the co-authors of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Read More …
I interviewed @dominicad (Dominica DeGrandis), who teaches and coaches teams using Kanban for IT Operations and Development Operations. She is an independent consultant as well as an associate of David J. Anderson. Her background includes ten years of doing Configuration Management, build and deployment automation, and server & environment maintenance, followed by leading teams performing Read More …
Many think that Value Stream Mapping is for the Lean people and Process Mapping is for Six Sigma. I was surprised by the answer to a similar question that I ask Ben Graham. Ben is President of The Ben Graham Corporation and author of the book Detail Process Charting: Speaking the Language of Process. I Read More …
There seems to be as many maps in the Service Design world as there is time in the Lean world. Have you ever thought of how many different types of time, there are in the Lean World? Lean has an infatuation with time: Lead Time, Takt Time, Cycle Time, Machine Time, Process Time, Value Add Read More …