Data Driven Problem Solving Program

Steven C. Wilson, one of the leading Lean Six Sigma trainers in the state of Iowa has released a new program, Data Driven Problem Solving. The entire program can be downloaded as a PDF and MP3 on IowaQualityTraining.com. Data Driven Problem Solving includes a 100 page book with over 4 hours of audio. In addition, Read More …

Is Continuous Improvement Continuous?

In the LinkedIn, Association for Manufacturing Excellence Group there has been a discussion started about this presentation where they suggest that a standard is more like a target condition, and that the only way to maintain gains is to keep improvement moving forward. Their thoughts, hence the slideshow is that PDCA is better served by Read More …

Lean Marketing Board Game Introduction

Following The Lean Startup Principles of Build, Measure, Learn, I am introducing a MVP version of the Lean Marketing Board Game which surprisingly is not based on the Lean Startup but instead my book the Lean Marketing House.  I really don’t teach Build, Measure, Lean and the Pivot, I just stick to the old PDCA Read More …

Lean Marketing House – 28 Day Program

These webinars will discuss utilizing the Lean Marketing House Concept and how to apply Continuous Improvement to your sales and marketing process. I am offering from August 25th thru the 28th, a 25% discount on the next session. That session will start on September 8th.  Each Participant will receive the E-Books: Lean Marketing House, Marketing Read More …

Answers to Sustainability

I was participating in a discussion on LinkedIn and came across an article, How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities from the Harvard Business Review and like most of us, if it says sustainability we take a look. It has to be the most difficult part of any continuous improvement process. I found the Read More …

Lean or Six Sigma which fork in the road do you take?

People will see my comments floating around the Internet on the subject of Lean Six Sigma. I am not an expert and probably take too much liberty in the application of them to even proceed but it was important to me to post my view. There will always be a strong debate between Lean and Read More …