Building Relationships with Kaizen

The Friday Video Series continues with Dr. Michael Balle, the Gemba Coach at the Lean Enterprise Institute. The next series of videos has a central theme of Kaizen. This particular video focuses on using individual Kaizen to empower others. How do you build trust in a business relationship? Dr. Balle is a multiple Shingo Prize Read More …

Call it Building a Lean Sales and Marketing Machine

David Skok, a five time serial entrepreneur turned VC, at Matrix Partners presented this at a HubSpot Webinar last week together with Mike Volpe, the VP of Marketing at HubSpot.This video is 60 minutes long and well worth the time. A little promotional for Hubspot but in my opinion Hubspot is a quality product and Read More …

Building a Lean Healthcare Value Stream

A Lean Healthcare value stream is just as likely as a manufacturer to employ lean concepts such as kanbans, heijunka, jidoka, kaizen, and the couple dozen new words for process improvement that happen to be Japanese words because Henry Ford didn’t think of them first. Many or most Lean teachings come from the Toyota Production Read More …

Building a Construction Blog, Lacking content

If you are in the construction field and more specifically home building or real estate look at this all in one page of widgets that you can put on your website or better yet your blog. I think it is interesting how you can use their widgets and obtain local information on the housing market, Read More …