The Exploration (Innovation) Card

EDCA or Explore-Do-Check-Act.  I like to use this term; EDCA learned from Graham Hill to designate the Explore aspect of Lean. I view it as more of Design Type thinking content that allows for that collaborative learning cycles with a customer. We are capturing comments and/or suggested improvements to the card over on LinkedIn, http://bit.ly/2eKKA0t. Download Read More …

Develop a Kaizen Spirit thru TWI

A few weeks ago, I introduced the Lean Talent Development Matrix and had promised to follow-up with the description in more detail of the boxes. Instead of singling out each box, I thought the natural progression was to group the boxes and show the overall relationships in four quadrants. This diagram represents the four boxes Read More …

Roger Bilas on Training Within Industry

In an immersive working session at the Lean People Development Summit, held September 11-12, Roger Bilas will facilitate the TWI:  Still the Perfect Foundation for People Development – 75 Years and Counting session. The Summit draws professionals from HR, continuous improvement, and leadership to explore how best to design job roles aimed at improvement, build Read More …

Training Within Industry Audio Book

This is a collection of Business901 podcasts on Training within Industry. It is about 2-hours in length and features the following guests: Jim Huntzinger, president of Lean Frontiers, has researched at length the evolution of manufacturing in the United States with an emphasis on lean’s influence and development. He has researched and worked to re-deploy TWI Read More …

Using 6s in your Data Management

I use a foundation of Training within Industry (people side) and the 6s approach (Data side) to implement an onboarding program. It is usually based on a 90 to 100-day cycle.  An outline of the process is depicted below. 5s is a systematic corrective action technique to clean up, get organized and make this the way Read More …